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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of learners who began college in fall 2018, which is the most recent cohort tracked, earned a credential within six years. An unsurprising data point in the report is that full-time students from the fall 2018 cohort completed at a rate of 67.2% point gap in 2018. compared to part-time students, who completed at 33.7%

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Dr. Claudine Gay’s Resignation from the Harvard Presidency Possibly Saved Her Life

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black women who aspire to and ultimately achieve an institutional presidency will always have a tough road due to institution-sanctioned violence, a concept Nadrea Njoku and I wrote about in 2018. Prior to her selection as president of Harvard, Gay had been an impossibility for nearly 400 years of that institution’s history.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

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In 2018, at career peak, the median annual earnings for English literature and language majors working full-time were $76,000, only $2,000 below that of all majors, $78,000. In 2018, the median annual earnings for men who are English language and literature majors was about $74,000. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Report: Black Girls Receive More Frequent and More Severe Discipline in School Than Other Girls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education data in the 2017-2018 school year. Government Accountability Office (GAO), points out that Black girls tend to face more and harsher forms of discipline than other girls including higher suspension and expulsion rates. The report’s conclusion is based on an analysis of U.S.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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Dr. Ronald S. Rochon Appointed Chair of AASCU Board of Directors

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Rochon University of Southern Indiana Rochon is currently president of the University of Southern Indiana (USI), a role he has had since 2018. Rochon has been appointed chair of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) Board of Directors. Dr. Ronald S.

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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

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In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. In 2018, Chen was a student organizer and expert witness for the defense in Students for Fair Admissions vs. President and Fellows of Harvard College

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