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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APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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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

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

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. Robert T.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements. Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whitaker has spent the last 13 years in higher education leadership in Sacramento and Oakland, California. Before higher ed, Whittaker had a legal career, with a focus on labor and employment, civil ligation, and civil rights. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Dr. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., leadership and policy studies, University of Memphis; and Ph.D., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Boggs Americans are avoiding or delaying further education or training despite what we know about the long-term benefits to individual job security, earning capacity, health, and quality of life. Dr. George R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Some of those institutions closed in an orderly fashion—students, faculty and staff were given ample warning, and arrangements for continuing a student’s education at another institution, teach-out plans, are made. But sometimes institutions experience an abrupt closure, where students, faculty and staff receive little to no warning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Social media, namely Twitter, can provide scholars a platform on which they can engage with various individuals within and outside of academia, potentially those who otherwise would not have access to the scholars’ work, said panelist Dr. Laila McCloud, an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. million credit and non-credit students for the 2021-22 academic year; the need to retain top talent among faculty and staff continues to grow. As a System, we want more students to cross the finish line.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Representation Matters : Increase the representation of linguistically diverse faculty and staff.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. These groups are also crucial for administrators collaborating with faculty and other staff with shared interests.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“This initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of our community colleges to serve as hubs for regional Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that convene high school educators, community college faculty, and representatives from local employers and workforce agencies,” Dr. Karen Stout says in the award notification.

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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. 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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I

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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

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. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Through this online course, students, educators, parents, and community members, can learn about culturally responsive, transformative, and social justice leadership, as well as other evidence-based practices that can help them to create more inclusive and equitable classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The webinar allowed Diverse to inquire further about the scholars’ ongoing research and their views on a number of topics relevant to the current education landscape. 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

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. Together, the two work to make organizational, leadership, and cultural changes that transform higher education into a welcoming space for marginalized populations. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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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 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. But I saw myself as an educator going to this board to effect change at the policy level for those whom I knew most needed it.”

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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. My greatest hope is for our students to know they have access to people, places, and resources they need to be successful in their dreams and goals,” she says. “I

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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. Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students.

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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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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. His leadership approach has been featured in several outlets, including the American Society for Association Executives. It’s my way of paying it forward, and I can’t wait to get started.”.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

I may not be able to make the staff happy because I need to do this for faculty and students, or whatever the case may be. The institution had to declare financial exigence and engage in severe retrenchment, closing programs, and terminating tenured faculty. The vice presidents have responsibility for their respective areas.

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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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