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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis Robbins UPEP’s inaugural cohort represents “a bold expression of University of Utah President Taylor Randall’s commitment to unsurpassed social impact in our state and region,” said Dr. Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. He honored human beings. He wrote the foundational text in my speech courses.” He was dignified in manner but always had a spark of good cheer and big smile.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fuentes, who is set to begin her senior year as a scholarship student at the University of California, Riverside, this fall, is majoring in education, society, and human development with a minor in political science. But then in 2016 came President Donald J. Priscila Fuentes is one of those students.

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North Carolina Behind in Goal for Educational Attainment; Calls for Greater Student Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. After earning her high school diploma, she received a Longleaf Commitment scholarship, a last dollar scholarship created by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper through federal pandemic relief funding. “After his passing, I couldn’t cope properly.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was fall 2016 and the nation was alive with activism in the wake of Donald J. He came out on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter in December 2016, something that his mother and church rejected at that time. Durmerrick Ross stands beneath lights at an event. Trump’s election and upcoming inauguration.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. Among the course selections are the African American novel, human sexuality and behavior, power and gender, and science, technology and gender. Newson-Horst commends Dr. Ida E. We want to create a specific mission.”

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