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Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities. and she received a 2019 Graduate Peer Mentor Award at University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, among others.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. But despite their efforts to increase access and opportunity for all, equity gaps remain. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

They pledged millions to initiatives such as hiring diverse faculty, appointing Chief Diversity Officers, revising curricula to address issues of race and power, and implementing new systems to report and address bias and discrimination. For Latinx students in our sample, 17% reported experiencing racism from white faculty in class.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. from FSU in 2019 — hasn’t had trouble recruiting diverse students from all backgrounds to sign up as LAs.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig The award – named after diversity and equity advocate Linda C. Tillman – recognizes and commends Vasquez Heilig’s work towards equity in education. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award. s education system.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. For faculty members: As educators, you have a profound influence on shaping future leaders. A study by Martínez et al.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. There were 10 fewer Black tenure-line faculty overall in fall 2022 compared to the year before. “It

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MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sánchez, University of Southern California; and Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, Community Based Health Worker and Midwife Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Never forget why you do what you do. Each of my projects has an overarching umbrella: community, technology, justice, equity, and media,” says Agloro. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. Fair assessment is essential to achieving true education equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. Create a strong organizational culture As an employer, MCCCD strives to build an atmosphere that values and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

When Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar first got the call in 2019 to proofread scripts for accuracy in Julian Fellowes’ new series The Gilded Age on HBO, she was surprised. We have to keep the lights on, pay faculty, and keep the grounds, but we can’t pass the cost of that to students,” said Jones.

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APRIL 11, 2023

I think it evolved naturally,” said Armstrong-Mensah, who is also the lead faculty member for the school’s Ghana study abroad program, referring to her focus on public health. “I I started out in my country of origin, which is Ghana.

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APRIL 21, 2023

million students since the fall of 2019, and notable decreases in students with several under-represented backgrounds. But institutions are under pressure, too. The effects of the pandemic on college enrollments are still lingering , with a total enrollment decline of 1.2 Even applications are changing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. The program has helped students become faculty, researchers, and policy makers. Dr. Sherri Charleston is the first chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University. Jackson got to know the Charlestons when all three worked at UW — Madison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Faculty and staff at DCCC embraced him, Shegog said, seeing him as a human first and foremost, asking him to share who he was, his past, and his dreams. Her activism and efforts to spread awareness of life-saving tools like Narcan helped Jackson County, WI achieve zero accidental overdoses in 2019.

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APRIL 30, 2024

In 2019, however, the system was awarded the National Seal of Excelencia by the nonprofit Excelencia in Education. Meanwhile, campus leaders at California State University, Bakersfield, are doubling down on holistic student support to close equity gaps among its diverse student population.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

The University of Michigan reported that in 2019 one-quarter of students from underrepresented backgrounds said they did not feel they belonged at Michigan, a 66% increase over ten years earlier.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There’s Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ announcing a new legislative proposal that would prevent public institutions of higher education from using any funding, whether public or private, to support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. That the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [link] ). Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. Addressing health disparities means addressing access to healthcare equity,” she continues. and Kathy R.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

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. com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Race-and-Ethnicity-in-Higher-Education.pdf. References. Janice Roberson, A.,

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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 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S.,

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Angel Pérez is a renowned national leader and noted speaker on issues of education equity, access, and success in American education who brings a valuable perspective to our advocacy efforts supporting students from diverse backgrounds,” said Mike Nylund, president and CEO of Scholarship America.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It could also affect recruitment as prospective students are more likely to question whether college is worth the cost in the first place. --> 0 % of high school students reported college isn’t “worth the cost” in 2023, up from 8% in 2019. Read our blog for tips on building faculty buy-in for student success initiatives.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Leadership Opportunities Are Everywhere For most of her years working in higher education, Chancellor Larive was more interested in being a faculty member and lab administrator than moving into campus leadership. Faculty is a leadership role. When you're a faculty member, you're your own boss. ACE has a faculty fellows program.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

in 2019,” says Susan L. Krinsky “The Supreme Court’s decision creates additional headwinds to the efforts of law schools and others to provide access and equity in legal education,” says Krinsky. The new organization plans to offer official credentials, teaching law school faculty, staff, and administration best practices for DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Ford Yet, despite this, far too many equity efforts die on the vine. Dr. Donna Y.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou, also chair and associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Berea College in Kentucky, got to know hooks when she came to Berea in 2019. At many institutions, particularly predominately white institutions [or PWIs], Black women can often be the only Black women faculty in their department,” said Commodore.

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