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Kristina Londy Kristina Londy has been named director of student success and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California.

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I intentionally mentor others, helping them navigate the challenges of higher education leadership and empowering them to take ownership of their journeys. These experiences have given me a unique lens through which I approach leadership, prioritizing equity, access, and the holistic well-being of our students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., educational leadership and policy, University of Texas at Austin, College of Education Career mentors: Dr. Victor B. Dr. Victor B. Dr. Robert T.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. If we work together to expand access to science and engineering for Black boys and males, we will begin to better utilize the brilliant, diverse talent in our country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Title :Assistant Dean for Student Vitality & Career Development and Director of Student Affairs Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Virginia; MBA in Business Administration, Averett University; Ph.D So I navigated accessing college and all of that on my own, and I felt like now it's my turn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I I was able to complete proposals that upper administrators complete.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To understand how to ensure better access and promote positive outcomes for all students in dual enrollment programs, community colleges need to understand the dual enrollment experience from the perspective of students themselves. Almost 4,500 students from 17 colleges across 11 states responded to the fall 2022 DESSE pilot administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. in community college leadership. The professors come to the students for much of the face-to-face learning, thus making this program highly accessible to working adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as CSU chancellor allows me to continue my deep commitment to serving the new majority of students – low-income, first-generation, and/or students of color –and to expand their access to postsecondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Stukes said JCSU faculty started recording their lectures and uploading them, so if circumstances made students unable to access the lectures at a specific time, they could still view them. If lectures are recorded, students who miss a class can readily access the material, said Luoma. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2024

The gentle on-ramp to repayment the administration provided is expected to end in September. The past year’s chaos and future confusion is the consequence of the highly politicized nature of higher education and its components, experts agreed. Currently, 18 states have challenged SAVE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A However, he continued to write as he engaged in more college-access experiences and roles. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

For graduate students and professionals interested in an academic career, it is important to understand the differences between selective admission institutions, focused on research, publication, and the expansion of knowledge, and those that are open-access, focused on teaching and student learning. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Individuals are denied equitable access to education and coerced into relinquishing their native tongues. Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on. student within the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at Howard University.

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MARCH 29, 2024

This approach recognizes the uniqueness of each culture and strives to adapt communication, policies, and practices that are respectful and accessible to all, fostering a sense of belonging and equity. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Scholarship with a moral imperative Vassar, whose work is in the department of educational leadership at Wayne State, has made equity and justice the center of everything she does. I was compelled to be an educator’ Vassar spent two decades in K-12 roles as a teacher, counselor, and administrator after receiving her Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

It reminded me of that feel, touch, and access that land-grant schools provide and that it’s a pride point for Michigan State. They carry out their work where access is a priority, but excellence on the back end is also a priority.” As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it. I gave up.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

—Will Ballard, CEO, Civitas Learning 3 Ways Civitas Learning Helps Higher Education Solve Its Toughest Challenges Civitas Learning was founded to help colleges and universities translate their vast student data into actionable insights institutions need to help their students succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Realigning TM 2 to enhance the leadership initiatives for our member schools at the executive level is essential to the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), historically Black community colleges (HBCCs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and the students they serve, says Dr. Harry L.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

For the past decade, she has advised university presidents, system chancellors, and state and federal policy leaders on strategies to expand access to higher education, address costs, and promote completion for students of all backgrounds. He was awarded President Emeritus status by the Arkansas State University System in January 2024.

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But that day, I had the opportunity to advocate for my own institution, and we ended up with a great result.” Personal Paths to Educational Leadership We like asking about what informed our guests’ leadership style, and President Sacks offered this wonderful anecdote: “My family did not have horses. Dr. Sacks holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. That rule will likely, immediately get challenged in court,” says Kelchen.

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MAY 24, 2023

Sacramento State was critical to Wood’s ascension to academic and administrative stardom after a difficult childhood. Once Wood had access, he made the most of it. After graduating from Sacramento State with a bachelor’s in Black History and Politics, Wood returned for his master’s in Higher Education Leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Bonner II, the Wilhelmina Delco Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and the executive director of the Minority Achievement, Creativity and High-Ability Center, Prairie View A&M University, and a collaborator with CSJ. Plans are underway for a 2025 convening that will explore the topic of reparative justice in higher education.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A Texas district judge ’s decision to str ike down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Thursday is a significant blow to the future of the program, according to experts. Department of Education pulled down the online application for forgiveness. In response to the ruling, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Dr. Ezinne Ofoegbu, an assistant professor of educational leadership at Santa Clara University, California, agrees. an expansion of DEI initiatives already happening at Centennial institutions, including hiring for coaching, staff, and administration that looks more like the student-athletes they serve. Dr. Kathleen E.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dr. Chris Howard , Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Arizona State University , arrived at his present position by an unconventional route, and he spoke with us about how leadership is more than a title, what a president actually does, an early lesson from the military, and three books that helped him define his role.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It was over 180 years ago that HBCUs were founded, at a time when Black Americans had little to no access to higher education. Still today, they are central to the education and empowerment of Black Americans—offering more than just a degree but also a legacy of opportunity and possibility. Dr. Adriel A.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

This latest relief brings the total number of public service workers who have had their student loans forgiven under the Biden-Harris administration to over 1 million. Before Biden took office, only 7,000 borrowers had received forgiveness through PSLF, highlighting the transformative impact of the administration's reforms to the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Named in honor of Terrella well-responded student affairs administratorthe MCT Foundation was created to ensure underrepresented students gain access and achieve success in higher education and student affairs. candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Mental health was among the many topics that educators explored during the four-day conference. But the ongoing attacks on higher education at the hands of the incoming Trump administration also weighed on the minds of attendees. The administration has promised, among other things, to dismantle the U.S. Dr. Bryan K.

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MARCH 11, 2024

While speaking on his administration’s accomplishments in his last four years of service, Biden also addressed what he called “the future of possibilities we can build together.” In September 2023, the administration offered $93 million in research and development grants to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other MSIs.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

HBCUs have long been centers of education, leadership, and political activism. Since the election resulted in the re-election of former President Donald Trump, the outlook for HBCUs appears mixed at best, given his previous administration's handling of higher education and racial equity issues. Dr.Adriel A.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Later, President Joe Biden responded by asserting that his administration provided billions of dollars to these institutions because "any Black student is capable of doing what any white student can do." student in the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program in the School of Education at Howard University.

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