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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. During the same 40-year period, Black enrollment doubled.

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Tiffany Taylor Smith

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Taylor Smith is a noted leader in intercultural competence and joined the University of Dayton as an executive director for inclusive excellence education in 2017, before being appointed assistant vice president in 2021.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. In terms of student mobility, there wasn’t much equity to start with,” said Dr. Philip G.

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Inspired by Veteran Grandfather, Therapist Teaches Wellness, Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CGU’s former dean of students and campus life, she arrived on campus in 2017 and became the school’s chief student affairs officer in June 2023. "A She is involved in myriad school matters including campus life, international students services, disability services, the Clery Act, and financial aid as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My It’s all a team effort,” Means said. My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. I want to continue to disrupt monolithic perspectives about rural communities.”

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamental to all of this is the need to develop strategies born out of active and collaborative partnership, not merely looking within our own spheres.” In addition to focusing on associate degree earners, they have an explicitly stated emphasis on diversity and equity,” said Harrison. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. for students who entered in 2017. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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