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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Her professor directed her to the faculty union and its emergency non-profit, the Local 212 MATC FAST Fund. Faculty and Students Together (FAST) The FAST Fund is a faculty-led, non-profit organization that provides MATC students experiencing economic challenges with quick financial assistance. This model is spreading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 using a Diversity Index (DI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From 2016 to 2022, the number of applicants from this demographic nearly doubled, yet acceptance rates remained low, highlighting a critical need for additional support. Such a dual designation, he added, reflects the university's broader goal to support diversity and equity across the student body, faculty, and campus culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Class of 2022 data revealed that only 48% of Black, first-year students who enrolled in the CSU in fall 2016 earned their degree in six years, according to the Black Student Success Workgroup Report. strategies that support faculty and staff in support of Black student success; and 3.) Dr. Thomas A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rivera A task force composed of faculty and staff examined the policy’s effect on our application volume, applicant diversity, and student academic success metrics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In our 2016 co-authored op-ed, “ Viewing Black Male Students as Princes, Not Problems,” we advocate for an approach that emphasizes the potential of Black males rather than focusing on perceived deficiencies. 2016) Dr. Ronald W. Whitaker, II.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Richard Cordray “Students, faculty, and staff deserve to know that they can be safe and secure in their school communities. The findings point to Clery Act violations such as failing to compile and publish accurate crime statistics, from 2016-2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. Faculty involvement is embedded into the structure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1 A framework was built.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Haney has been commended for her work in higher ed, receiving awards including 2016 John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College and Moraine Valley’s 2016 Dr. Vernon O. Department of Education. Crawley Leadership Award. Haney holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. Learn how to say no as a junior faculty member but say it with poise and some grace. I love my students. I love my teaching.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In 2016, he was criticized when Yale decided not to remove the name of John C. Ultimately, I plan to return to the Yale faculty, work on some long-delayed writing and research projects, and renew my love of teaching and working with students while continuing to help with fundraising,” he wrote. Calhoun—a former U.S.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Education Hispanic serving institution (HSI) designation in 2016; received the Seal of Excelencia certification in 2021; created the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement; developed the Engineering Technology/Cyber Security Research Center; and established the Institute for Autism and Related Disorders.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Seed funding is one of the primary mechanisms we use to allow faculty to pursue new research directions that have incredible potential but might be prohibitively difficult to get off the ground otherwise,” said ICTAS Director Dr. Stefan Duma. “We to bolster research on campus. The projects will launch this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2016, Coast Guard attorneys recommended that Sulmasy be prosecuted in a military court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and willful dereliction of duty, however Coast Guard leaders rejected the recommendation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee. Her research is groundbreaking,” says Moses. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). Public community colleges have ties to local and regional economies, faculty possessing advanced degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, and direct experience in industry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 4, 2024

Two interim presidents have since held the position: Dr. Richard Englert, who previously led Temple from 2016 to 2021, was appointed interim president after the sudden death of JoAnne Epps, the former law school dean and interim president, who collapsed on stage at a university ceremony and later died in September 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Englert has served in a number of roles at Temple over the years, including president from 2016-2021. “Dr. Epps started and provide a steady hand of leadership while the search for Temple’s next chief executive continues,” Trustees Chair Mitchell L. Morgan said in a letter to the Temple community.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Dr. Martino Harmon, vice president for student life, recalled the tensions that erupted across the nation during the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, when first amendment issues took center stage. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. They’re on a journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

The school's enrollment was more than 4,000 full-time students in 2016, and since 2019, enrollment has fallen 19.7%. SSU, Georgia’s oldest public historically Black college, currently has 2,606 students enrolled, a 5.5% decrease from 2,759 last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

The institution was previously on probation from 2016 to 2018. “I Moving the institution toward full compliance has required breaking down silos across the university, pulling the board, faculty, and staff together onto the same page, she said. 2021, when SAU was under a monitoring period by SACSCOC. Dr. Michael J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The presidents of these institutions said these increases are testament to tireless and intentional effort from faculty, staff, and leadership. It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. Timothy Moore, president of Indian River State College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Experts say that faculty, administration, alumni, and even current students have a role to play in influencing the stability of their university’s executive office. We truly get to know them in terms of board, alumni, students, faculty, and staff.” If there is a lot of turnover, faculty and alums need to ask, ‘what’s going on with us?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University. He was dignified in manner but always had a spark of good cheer and big smile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges. The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. The dean followed up, and an announcement was made at a faculty senate meeting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This has had real effects across the American higher education sector: since 2016, new international student enrollment had been decreasing year over year across colleges and universities in the United States, even before it plummeted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Stephanie K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Colleges and universities can make the benefits even more meaningful by accepting SNAP on campus (Oregon State began doing this in 2016 and Penn State recently began as well) and/or exempting SNAP recipients from meal plan requirements. The average benefit for a single adult is around $2,000 a year and it is higher for students with children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We We get students of color primarily through word-of-mouth and because of the fact that we have so many faculty members who are people of color,” Cummings says. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

sociology, University of Colorado Boulder Career mentors: Elaine Enarson, independent scholar; Ophra Leyser-Whalen, University of Texas at El Paso; and Ron Aday, Middle Tennessee State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your career path may look very different than your mentors and/or your faculty colleagues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Although there was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated or was aware of manipulations at the time, he has not adequately explained why he did not make corrections when given opportunities to do so.

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