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Dr. Kim Schatzel Named President of University of Louisville

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Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

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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 I want to continue to disrupt monolithic perspectives about rural communities.”

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

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Thomas in Minnesota, where almost all the students are minoritized and nearly three-quarters are first-generation, has managed to buck this trend. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. Hall, a first-generation African American student at DFC. “It Staff were everywhere.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

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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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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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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Jarell Green: Nurse turned Education Advocate

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Jarell Green: Nurse turned Education Advocate March 14, 2023 Jarell is a Counselor for the McNair and Student Support Services programs at the First-Generation Student Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. Jarell Green is a TRIO Student Support Services alumnus from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).