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Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull Recognized for Social Equality Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is an honor to be recognized along with other activists who build community and opportunity through race and equity work,” Crazy Bull said. As part of the award, the six leaders are allowed to direct a $200,000 grant to a nonprofit of their choice, which can then take part in the bank’s one-year Neighborhood Builders Leadership Program.

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Universities Partner to Investigate and Determine What Makes a “Universal Basic Neighborhood”

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Dr. Nancy Seay The effort entails an 18-month study – funded by a $500,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – to identify features neighborhoods should have to promote resident health. This work is about diagnosing and treating places so that the health benefits are shared by many.”

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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. “My My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. from Duke University in 2017. “I SACNAS has always come at it as strength-based rather than deficit minded,” Lambert continued. “So, It backfired.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

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In addition to focusing on associate degree earners, they have an explicitly stated emphasis on diversity and equity,” said Harrison. A $1 million grant from the Delta Regional Authority, a federal-state partnership improving the quality of life in the Mississippi Delta, has allowed LSUE to go back to its agrarian roots.

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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. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. That rose to 61.2%

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

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So, I have loved having opportunities to do the good work, to have more impact over time, and to now lead an institution that is fundamentally about access, equity, inclusion, for people who are left behind in higher education.” And this puts a lot of pressure on us to up our game. access and inclusion for all, regardless of background.