Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

One organization delves deep into both fiscal challenges this way : This analysis describes trends in the persistence of working poverty in America drawing from new data added to the National Equity Atlas. The 2024 Survey found that 35 states now require students to take a course in personal finance to graduate, up by 12 since 2022.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited. In the words of Derrick A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The current state of health equity is still in need of improvement, Riley said. Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Her teaching emphasizes college students and their development, issues of equity and access, leadership and policy and practice in higher education. Mitchell is an internationally recognized scholar whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Evans and Andrea D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Page in a book published in 2010 concluded diversity created “better groups, firms, schools and societies.”

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

These institutions are often gateways to upward mobility, offering access to quality education at a fraction of the cost of universities. Community colleges also serve a high number of first-generation students, adult learners, and veterans, broadening access to education for groups that otherwise might struggle to pursue higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ivery In my recent book, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Public Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), I use Detroit as a national template to explore the new dynamics of public education segregation and, therefore, of the racial, social, economic, political, and educational dynamics of the related urban and metropolitan region.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Janel George The panel – part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s larger National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice (NREI) Summit – brought together experts to discuss contemporary attacks against the inclusion of Black history in societal awareness and education. That's actually just not there,” Patterson said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She says she often asks herself: “How do we create equity and justice in these spaces that I occupy, where I know first-hand that equity and justice are absent?” From that sense of urgency, Vassar created CBCE to allow educators to learn from and support each other to advance equity and justice for Black children.

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JULY 20, 2024

The students are always the teachers in my book about which community-engaged practices to implement in a space,” she says. “I Bennett carries memories of these people and is constantly thinking about ways to honor their hyperlocal and global lens in equity work for student success through the Women’s Center. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

People sat outside on blankets, chatting or reading books. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers. Yet, as others, here and here , have highlighted, competition, equity, and fairness has created a level of uncertainty and panic among some groups. Louis, Missouri. diversity).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Many of these students face economic hardships, insufficient access to mentorship, and a lack of preparatory resources, all of which contribute to their struggle in navigating the medical education landscape. This is not just a matter of equity; it’s a matter of quality in healthcare. Dr. Marcus A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses. Community engagement requires a holistic and campus-wide approach.

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Active Minds

APRIL 4, 2023

Thus, it’s incredibly important to advocate for access to care, as well as access to other necessities that influence our ability to seek care. “Access to healthcare is crucial for maintaining good mental health. Tyren suggests, “Find your ‘Why?’. Advocating is a passion — you have to have the heart to do the work.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy. Harvey serves as Distin- guished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity in Washing- ton, DC.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Kelley’s notion of the “ Freedom Dream ,” an invitation to imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. At community college campuses, blue books, scantrons, and pencils would be free to all students. During the presentation, Garcia talked about Dr. Robin D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book. Similarly, educators become aware of the impact of colonialism on grading practices and strive for fairness and equity. For example, consider how we use dark to mean bad , evil , and frightening. chronicity).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My For her efforts, Rahming recently received the O∆K Community Commitment Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity by the honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa. My goal is to have the LAs look like the students in the courses,” says Rahming. This is praxis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As an institution, we are actually not a stranger to making sure that education is accessible,” says Patterson-Stephens, pointing out that CMU was one of the first institutions in the state of Michigan in the 1800s to provide educational support to the children of migrant workers. Earlier this year, she was awarded the Bobby E.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Going into COVID was an emerging big need around basic needs, tech access, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and they really stepped up and made emergency student aid an agenda.” They prioritized equity over equality in providing emergency aid.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. That’s the goal of coaching: to help students grow into the individuals they came here to be.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

During his first year in the role, Baker has shepherded the Student Athlete Holistic Policy for D-I, which guarantees scholarships and access to mental health services. If someone had asked Baker at the time about his plans post his governorship in 2022, he says that serving as NCAA president would not have been on the list. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. Lack of rigor concerns low challenge, the absence of critical thinking, and less access to advanced courses. We share the goal of closing achievement, opportunity, and access gaps.

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JUNE 28, 2023

His first job after completing his bachelor’s was at a community college in Wyoming, fueling his deep appreciation for the access to higher education that community colleges provide. His sense of curiosity drives his staff crazy, he said, because he’s always reading articles and books that he shares with them. Adjustments were made.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Du Bois was right: education doesn’t just teach books; it’s supposed to be teaching life.” The learners shared what they’ve learned from their time at the conference, how their community college experiences transformed them, and what community colleges must still do to improve and expand access and opportunities for all. asked Shegog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” As access institutions, community colleges have the opportunity to address the postsecondary educational needs of students and their families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Through the Steve Fund’s Equity in Mental Health on Campus initiative and other programs, we have worked to support colleges and universities in creating campuses that enhance student belonging and support and sustain their mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

These cases argued for equal access to public education for children with disabilities, said McConomy. And that is equity.” Johns has cited the late author and social critic bell hooks’s views on the matter, as written in her 1994 book, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Dr. Donna Y.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. I am committed to making it more accessible and equitable for all students, regardless of their background.

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Catherine Cronin

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The book, edited by Laura Czerniewicz and myself, has been published openly (with a CC BY-NC license ) by Open Book Publishers. This means that the book is free to access and to download via the publisher’s website , though you can also opt to purchase a hard copy – or ask your local library to purchase one.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

In that same month, Laura Czerniewicz and I published a call for chapters for a new book, an idea we had been slow-cooking for about six months (that book, Higher Education for Good , was published in October 2023). This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).

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Catherine Cronin

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The work of 70+ authors and artists, two-and-a-half years in the making (and many years in the imagining), and committed to open access and open practice, the book was published by Open Book Publishers in October 2023 and is freely available to all.

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