Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. Establishing a cultural inclusivity and equity function on the board will illuminate these values. Dr. Margaretta B. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Chanelle Whittaker has been appointed vice president for equity, culture, and talent at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) located in Maryland. Chanelle Whittaker “I am extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to be a part of the Prince George's Community College family,” Whittaker said. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The ACE Report details what has become the useful identification of education deserts — defined as geographical locations where there are no colleges or universities in the vicinity or one community college is the only public broad-access institution in the area. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Among the challenges: Too many are overly focused on enrollment, defining access as the single most important priority of community colleges, and too few are prepared to develop the kind of bold, prioritized reform agenda to advance student success at scale. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“I look forward to joining the Folsom Lake College family and working with college staff and faculty to continue the important work of increasing access to higher education by focusing on closing equity gaps and improving student achievement,” Pimentel said. from the University of California, Davis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Accompanying the skills gap is a serious employment equity issue. The programs offer access to hundreds of occupations in high-growth and emerging industries. The program also provided important access for older adults. After Everything: Projections of Jobs, Education, and Training Requirements through 2031. Hoang, H.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

“Early childhood educators help young children learn, grow, and thrive. Under Secretary of Education James Kvaal. “If If these educators can access PSLF, we can help our youngest children, their families, and their communities.” But they are often poorly compensated, and student debt is a problem,” said U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Highlighted with individual profiles throughout the magazine, the 15 scholars hail from a range of academic disciplines – including education, STEM, and architecture – and cultural backgrounds. Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

As the call for equity for all students grows louder, community college educators (and other sector leaders) seek to implement equity initiatives to decrease outcome disparities. This author argues that cultural responsiveness and institutional policies and practices must be deeply integrated into the equity conversation.

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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

JULY 20, 2024

Louisville native Dr. Jabani Bennett is an interdisciplinary visual artist, yoga instructor, community-engaged educator, leadership consultant, dancer, and mama. Today, the Women’s Center is part of the brand-new Cultural & Equity Center, which was completed during the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As part of our work on the Bank of America Jobs Initiative, we have been assisting 21 community colleges and four-year, broad-access public HBCUs and HSIs in 19 urban markets to better connect Black and Latinx students to living-wage job pathways in financial services, information technology, and STEM. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition. Another dynamic is a new form of segregation emerging as the U.S. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. Eliminating affirmative action policies in higher education diversity efforts necessitates a strategic and intentional approach to maintaining inclusivity and equity.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

CBCE also places a strong emphasis on professional development for educators through the Leading for Equity and Justice Certificate Program (LEJ) in partnership with Eastern Michigan University’s Professional Programs and Trainings Office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. Create a strong organizational culture As an employer, MCCCD strives to build an atmosphere that values and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a System, we want more students to cross the finish line.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a graduate of Columbia's Teacher's College who studied higher education leadership, he is familiar with matters of access and is an HBCU alum, having earned his master’s degree in history and bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from Florida A&M University. Dr. John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. Eventually, both became Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. They collaborate on projects that improve access to graduate school for under-resourced students and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 27, 2022

The first African American in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis to earn tenure and be appointed to a named professorship, Jackson would eventually work his way up the ranks of the faculty, ultimately securing the rank of full professor and taking on the role of department chair. I gave up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The recent Supreme Court decision striking down race-conscious admissions policies , followed by anti-equity legislation across more than 40 states and at the highest level of government , erodes decades of collective efforts to rectify a history of gross social and structural inequities.

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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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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. For these professionals to maximize their returns, however, they must have access to adequate data resources and systems that will allow them to perform these analyses.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this role, he represents more than 26,000 admission and counseling professionals worldwide committed to postsecondary access and success. He is the primary voice of the association to government, media, and global partners. It’s my way of paying it forward, and I can’t wait to get started.”.

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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. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

“The work that I do as a scholar is directly influenced by [the knowledge that] educators serve as critical agents to help students, particularly our minoritized students, navigate institutions that have historically struggled with facilitating access,” he said. Once Wood had access, he made the most of it. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

to gather ideas, share information, and network with others who work to build equity and opportunity in the academic world. When we think about the institution of higher education, it’s created a system that incentivizes focus on research outcomes. Can we reimagine higher education to be places not harmful for students?”

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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. Our work is very community and practitioner-oriented,” Knaus says. His most recent book, co-edited with Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong. “All

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