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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. She is an APA Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. Geffert himself has prior experience with o pen-access models. And this is one of the ways that we can do that,” Prelock said. The power of knowledge access can't be understated.

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Your ‘Nowhere’ is my ‘Somewhere’

Supporting Student Success

Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success. Do you know of other conferences, books, articles, people to follow on Twitter who focus on rural education issues? References.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. Sometimes you'll be able to take time off. You have to spin with it."

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown II, CSJ executive director and research scientist, says in recent years higher education research has shifted away from HBCUs to minority-serving institutions more broadly. Research topics are driven by the mission and by the Agora Strategy Council of which Dr. Christopher B. Dr. Harry L. Nicholas D.

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Professor Sues Hamilton College for Racial Discrimination

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was a small unit, with fewer than five professors, and Mwantuali, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was the only faculty member of color. “It Only around 60% of Black faculty believe that faculty of color are treated fairly. I was just trying to see how things go.”

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