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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education

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This downgrade is not an isolated incident; instead, it is the culmination of destabilizing factors, including funding cuts and the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, which are transforming the environment surrounding U.S. higher education. higher education institutions.

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University of Michigan President Dr. Santa Ono to Exit After Brief Tenure

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In 2015, Diverse profiled Ono. However, Ono's administration has faced significant criticism for reducing investments in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, including the controversial closure of the Office of DEI.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. These recommendations include: 1.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in February, more than 1,000 practitioners from hundreds of colleges across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, to exchange evidence-based approaches to accelerating student success and equity. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. There was also a robust focus on the humanities.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers. The university has made diversity, equity, and inclusion a shared responsibility throughout the institution.

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FIRE Releases List of Worst Campuses for Free Speech

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts were at the center of another entry. The University of Oregon (UO) drew FIRE’s ire due to its rubric for evaluating DEI statements from prospective faculty and faculty seeking promotion or tenure. UO ignored FIRE’s protestations and maintained the rubric.

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Reconciling Contrasting Findings on Perceptions of Higher Ed

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A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. citizens expressed high confidence.