Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Acknowledging the deep divide regarding perspectives on freedom of expression and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across higher education, and the feelings of those who believe particular speech harms their personhood, we wholeheartedly reject the contention that these commitments must operate at cross-purposes.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Jia Osiel will become Achieving the Dream’s (ATD) chief talent and equity officer. Osiel was a DEI Champion Awardee by National Diversity Council at its 2021 National Diversity & Leadership Conference. Stout, president and CEO of ATD. “Her Osiel holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Providence University in Taiwan.

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MAY 2, 2023

In an attempt to break this cycle, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is releasing a new report investigating employers’ understanding—or lack thereof— of equity in recruitment and offering ideas for how companies and Black colleges and universities can create mutually beneficial ties. Dr. Joshua D.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The 51,000 students who graduated from HBCUs in 2021 can expect to earn $146 billion over the course of their careers, 57 percent more than they would earn without a degree or certificate. Together, we must hold our country’s leaders accountable and demand equity in education.

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MAY 14, 2025

From 2005 to 2021, for instance, theclassification system considered 10 different variables. Morgan State is home to eight research centers of excellencethat focus on a range of issues, from cybersecurity andurban violence to health equity and climate research. One project is meantto strengthen Marylands oyster industry.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By 2020 the organization had ballooned to more than 700 members, and in 2021 it became part of Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit. Martin argues for change in food pantries writ large, moving beyond a focus on food distribution with new models that center empathy, equity, and systems reform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. We’re in a nuanced landscape right now.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Across states like South Carolina to Florida , local school boards are actively involved in banning books, removing school leaders committed to equity, and imposing limitations on classroom teachers, preventing them from teaching an accurate and honest portrayal of the United States' history.

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MAY 31, 2024

More than 150 bills were introduced in 35 state legislatures between 2021 and 2023, including 99 academic gag orders seeking to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” or other so-called “divisive concepts,” according to the paper.

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MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Current standards benefit traditional career paths and do not place an emphasis on experience in equity. According to 2021 data, 60% of the University of California (UC) chancellors are white. Candidates of color confront racial biases, both internal and external, from search committees, board of trustees, and even faculty and staff.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The report stems from association’s most recent board composition survey, Policies, Practices, and Composition of Governing Boards of Colleges, Universities, and Institutionally Related Foundations 2021.

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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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MAY 7, 2024

In the case of Florida, all 28 of the colleges in its system began conferring bachelor's degrees as of 2021, according to the report. The number of CCB colleges has seen significant growth, even compared to just two years ago in Fall 2021. Delaware and Nevada join Florida in this full-scale adoption of CCB degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Scott Vignos Since September 2021, Vignos has been interim vice president and chief diversity officer, and this appointment solidifies his role there. Scott Vignos will become Oregon State University’s vice president and chief diversity officer, effective immediately.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The school also presented a new logo and visual identity focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI). Oakton’s Board of Trustees approved the transition in August 2021. Oakton Community College has changed its name to Oakton College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to a 2021 report by the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Kapor Center , a non-profit focusing on the intersection of racial justice and technology, only 19% of PreK-12 computer science teachers are Black, indigenous, Latinx, or Pacific Islanders. With Google’s help, this year’s goal is to accept 20 students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, 62.1% They make a real, positive difference for students, address equity gaps, empower and enable faculty,” said Iuzzini. On those same metrics (retention, credits, math and English), equity gaps are starting to close as instructors use these practices,” said Iuzzini. The data is compelling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The decline comes after a spectacular performance in fiscal year 2021, when endowment returns increased by 30.6% The shift from public equities toward private equity and venture capital reflects the willingness and ability of larger institutions to reach for higher return targets,” said Popovich. on average.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Dr. David Radwin The brief, " Redrawing the Starting Line: Advancing Equity in Adult Learners’ Developmental Education Outcomes ", compared transfer-level English and math course completion rates between adult community college students – those age 25 or older – and their younger, traditional-age student peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mark McPhail, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Conditions for academic governance at IU Northwest are unsound and its racial climate is unwelcoming to faculty of color, the report said.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. We must continue the dialogue—and occasionally difficult conversations—around race and equity, both on and off campus.

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MARCH 8, 2023

O’Meara was also a 2021-2022 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2020. O’Meara’s leadership and expertise will be instrumental in helping the Teachers College community achieve new heights of academic excellence and social impact for the future.”

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This week, Grinnell will dedicate and name its newest residence hall in honor of Renfrow Smith, recognizing her legacy, life, and commitment to community, education, and equity. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution. And sometimes it feels late because she is 110, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Inaugural Chief Diversity Officer and Special Advisor to the President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Duquesne University Returning to her alma mater, Crystal McCormick Ware was appointed Duquesne University's inaugural chief diversity officer and senior advisor to the president for diversity, equity and inclusion in November 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Black women were 54% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021 among women, age 16 and older, in the U.S., Black women were 54% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021 among women, age 16 and older, in the U.S., Tyree of the Department of Communication Studies in collaboration with the national nonprofit HealthHIV. Setting the P.A.C.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education.

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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. Hines, E.M.,

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

Taylor Smith is a noted leader in intercultural competence and joined the University of Dayton as an executive director for inclusive excellence education in 2017, before being appointed assistant vice president in 2021.

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APRIL 2, 2024

In addition to food and housing insecurity, in 2021, data showed that 51% of students cited transportation as an area where they struggle. The study also found that 8% of undergraduates and 5% of graduate students are experiencing homelessness, accounting for more than 1.5 million students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leshchinskaya is part of a team from Brooklyn College and the University of Florida looking to change that with the creation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Institutionalization (DEII) assessment, a new instrument that allows colleges and universities to measure their DEI work at the institution level.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5 million, just under 20% of the U.S. asks Delgado.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Food-insecure students are more likely to fail or drop out of education, according to another 2021 UNM study. Just over 25% of UNM students experienced food insecurity and 42% of UNM undergraduate students experienced some kind of basic needs insecurity in 2020 and 2021. This is a social justice issue, an equity issue,” said Cargas. “If

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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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OCTOBER 2, 2024

A bright young scholar, Pickens graduated as the top-ranked student from Miami Northwestern Senior High School in the Class of 2021, armed with an impressive academic record and multiple offers of admission from institutions such as Harvard, Howard, Duke, and the University of Miami.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W.

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