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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. We know that when the nation focuses on addressing systemic issues Black males can succeed.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2000, he was appointed UT System’s vice president of equity and diversity, a role he held until retiring in 2014. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. If you aren’t woke, you’re asleep,” he says. “So,

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2000, he was appointed UT System’s vice president of equity and diversity, a role he held until retiring in 2014. He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. If you aren’t woke, you’re asleep,” he says. “So,

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Awarded 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

s top public influencers in education since 2014 – is currently on the executive committee and education co-chair for the Kentucky NAACP. Vasquez Heilig’s scholarly work is extensive, and he is well known for his scholarship regarding racial inequities in the U.S.’s Vasquez Heilig – ranked among the U.S.’s s education system.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is a full-circle moment for me, because Dean Holley was my very first hire as president of Howard in 2014,” said Dr. Wayne A. As law and society have become increasingly intertwined, President-elect Holley has enthusiastically risen to meet the critical need for interdisciplinary legal scholarship,” Sutphen said in a statement.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. The program offers a B.A. within six years. “We

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Paying it Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Villarreal, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute; Dr. Elisa Gorla, University of Neuchâtel; Dr. Felice Manganiello, Clemson University; and Dr. Gretchen Matthews, Virginia Tech Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Try, try, and try, and then you will get it. Do what you love.