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Former DEI Officer Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Milwaukee Area Technical College

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Eva Martinez Powless Eva Martinez Powless, who served as MATC's first DEI officer starting in 2021, claims in the lawsuit filed December 30 in the U.S. Eastern District Court that she faced retaliation after advocating for a Black employee with disabilities and speaking out against discriminatory practices at the college.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% years in 2021-22.” Pima Community College Dr. Dolores Duran-Cerda A Hispanic Serving Institution, Pima Community College (PCC), located in Tucson, Arizona, has a student population that is 48% Latino. . From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. For Fall 2021, the College of the Desert’s (COD) student headcount included 8,213 Hispanic students, 1,657 white students, 395 Asian students, 252 Black students, 28 American Indian/Alaska Native students, and seven Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Island students.

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

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In the 2021-22 application cycle, Common App reached 350,000 below-median income students. And if the organization keeps at that pace and changes nothing about how it does things, that equity gap between students of different income levels won’t be closing, said Stephanie Sample, Common App’s vice president of communications.

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Faculty and Staff at University of Colorado Boulder Walk Out, Demand Higher Wages and Better Conditions

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In 2021, the majority of CU’s faculty is non-tenure-track (66%). As a graduate student, I am one of the main workers collecting and analyzing data, communicating with instructors and writing papers. Universities at large have relied more and more on non-tenure track faculty over the years.

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Vermont Public to Buy Northern Vermont University Radio Station

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The station – which broadcasts at WWLR 91.5 – was run by student club WWLR and broadcasted “freeform community radio” to Caledonia County in Vermont and much of Coos County in New Hampshire, according to its website. The price would be no more than $80,000, but a final deal is contingent on approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

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IHEP Offers Lessons for Schools to Improve Transfer Pathways

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Since 2021, IHEP has been piloting TransferBOOST (Bachelor’s Opportunity Options that are Straightforward and Transparent), an initiative that offers support to 24 two and four-year institutions in Arizona, Virginia, and Illinois in improving their transfer pathways.