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MARCH 3, 2025

Founded in 2018 with the recognition that Black womens perspectives have long been marginalized in academia, BWSA was birthed as a necessary space for scholars dedicated to studying Black womens histories, politics, literature, and lived experiences.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2025

ATD's Leader College of Distinction award, created in 2018, sets an even higher bar for institutional achievement. Recipients must demonstrate improvement in three or more student outcome metrics, including completion or transfer rates, and show reduced equity gaps for at least two student groups.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.” Equity, familia and servingness are woven into the college’s leadership, programs and services to foster success for all students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, Black students earned just 7% of STEM bachelors degrees, compared to their 10% share of all bachelors degrees and 12% representation in the adult population. However, disparities in STEM degree attainment reflect systemic barriers that hinder progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Eanes is the ideal person to lead Cal State LA and continue to drive its powerful engine of social mobility,” said CSU Trustee Jack B. Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A Clarke, Jr., chair of the Cal State LA Presidential Search Committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

In 2018, Dr. Audrey Jaeger and Dr. Monique B. In 2018, I was watching and noticing that, while we were seeing gains in student success, it wasn’t at a steep, accelerated rate. We were not reducing equity gaps,” said Stout, recalling her Dallas Herring Lecture, an annual event at the Belk Center. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

In addition, gender and racial gaps among community college trustees continue to be a reality (ACCT, 2018). Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate. Equity is a clear part of the vision and mission of the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

One statistic shows that, between 2004 and 2018, the number of Black professors at Penn State stayed roughly the same, from 109 professors to 112. Whitehurst, vice provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%. Dr. Marcus A. Dr. Marcus A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2018 the U.S. As longtime basic needs champion and equity avenger Dr. Keith Curry , president of Compton College, keeps reminding us, it’s time to level up and embrace our collective responsibility as a sector that makes nearly daily proclamations about social mobility, equity, and diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. Equity-based career development and postsecondary transitions: An American imperative. internships).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

Since 2018, García has overseen AASCU, restoring the financial health of the organization and working to support public higher ed. Mildred García Once she steps into the role, García will be the first Latina president of the CSU, which is the nation's largest and most diverse four-year university system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. This year, Gray has a presidential session on “A Cocurricular Model for Supporting the Next Generation of Equity-Focused Educational Psychologists.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2018, when Dr. Tim Renick took on the role of senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University (GSU), the university’s demographics were rapidly changing. By using innovative advising and proactive supports, GSU’s equity gaps suddenly disappeared. Dr. Tim Renick “Today, we’re over 80% nonwhite,” says Renick.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

In May 2018, COD’s board of trustees approved a $1 million investment to support a diverse group of 23 faculty and administrators to participate in Kansas State University’s (KSU) doctoral Community College Leadership Program (CCLP), the first cohort known colloquially as the CCLP Roadrunner cohort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. What may be most startling about Dr. Mark, despite the worldwide scope of his scholarly profile, is his devotion to justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in and beyond the classroom,” says Riley. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to a 2018 U.S. This is a social justice issue, an equity issue,” said Cargas. Government Accountability Office report, 69% of college students eligible for SNAP did not receive benefits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CCA’s roots began in the state of Indiana, but, by 2018, when Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva became its president, the organization began to spread its work more intentionally across the nation. Watson Spiva has prioritized CCA’s growth through embracing new ideas and new approaches to higher education equity. We’re honest brokers.

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JULY 6, 2023

He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We In 2018, according to 2021 version of that bi-annual analysis, 16.8% We started something that I needed so much,” the 85-year-old said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. What may be most startling about Dr. Mark, despite the worldwide scope of his scholarly profile, is his devotion to justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in and beyond the classroom,” says Riley. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Elisabeth Barnett Caring Campus is a program that began in 2018 by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) to involve higher ed staff in improving engagement with students and creating a ‘culture of caring’ at community colleges.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Since 2018, we’ve notched several policy wins and made measurable progress for students. Supreme Court decisions make reversing those trends both more difficult and more critical than ever. Institutions must now reconsider how admissions and recruitment practices can increase diversity and equity in new ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2023

A Gallup poll was released, bearing terrible news: only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, down 12 percentage points from 2018 and 21 percentage points from 2015, when more than half of U.S. citizens expressed high confidence.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million. “Because of the range of programs we have, there are many career paths,” Carter says.

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Supporting Student Success

APRIL 13, 2021

This next decade of the 21 st century offers a timely opportunity for higher education to reconsider its approach to this often-misunderstood area of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Beyond language, of course, RSSI equity must be addressed through institutional policies and practices, as well as research and theory development.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

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. Waller joined Virginia Tech in 2018 as director of Graduate Student Programs. Expanded focus Further advancement came when Dr. Tremayne O.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Addressing health disparities means addressing access to healthcare equity,” she continues. Programming Capella University, which delivers most of its educational content online, launched its bachelor’s degree program in public health in 2018. We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

v To ensure stakeholders can answer important, equity-minded questions, policymakers should establish a student-level data network that connects data to illuminate student pathways and outcomes , especially for transfer students. 2018 Cost of Recruiting an Undergraduate Student Report. vi Postsecondary Value Commission.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This project will help fuel new research and identify best practices in scholarship administration, working towards true equity and socioeconomic mobility for students nationwide. This grant, and our work with AWS, will bring us invaluable insight into the ways we can truly make a difference in students’ lives and educational journeys.”

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, seven University Innovation Alliance institutions utilized change management and human-centered design principles to identify and deconstruct barriers to successful career readiness for first-generation and low-income students. Proactive Advising.

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