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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. It's not always easy.

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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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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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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. For example, the MBA programs offer 11 emphasis areas, including cybersecurity, health administration, data analytics and human resources. UMGC was recently designated a Minority Serving Institution.

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Digging Deeper

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That book has had a second life as a work of urgent public scholarship after events like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the Proud Boys comment during one of the presidential debates, and then, of course, the Jan. The group was established amid the 2016 presidential election.

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Nobody’s Perfect: Helping Students Navigate Achievement and Academic Excellence

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Making mistakes comes with being human, but when you’re a college student, you don’t always have the life experience to know that yet.” In 2017, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a study that examined data from over 40,000 college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom between 1989 and 2016.