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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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CCP Board Ousts Generals Without Explanation After Decade of Growth

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On April 10, the CCP Board of Trustees voted to relieve Generals of his duties, placing him on paid administrative leave until his contract expires in June. million agreement with the Navy pipeline project," Generals noted, defending his administration's performance. We just landed a $2.7 Our efforts have never been exclusionary.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

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We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Racism came from administrators, colleagues, and even students. Dr. Marcus A.

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Appointed Head of NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development.

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Gayles is currently an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor of Higher Education and senior adviser for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the College of Education. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Gayles holds a Ph.D.

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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

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Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

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However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al., In addition, gender and racial gaps among community college trustees continue to be a reality (ACCT, 2018).