Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. Today, the percentage stands at nearly 33%, marking a significant but measured progress in the landscape of academic leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps. That analysis attributed much of the effect to living on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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AUGUST 14, 2023

Throughout her career, she has been committed to student success, inclusion, and equity, leading programs for undergraduate research and curricular innovation, writing extensively on active and experiential learning and mentoring, and encouraging women and other underrepresented groups to enter the STEM fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces. Black boys are also suspended and expelled at much higher rates than other students ( Graves & Wang, 2022 ).

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