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

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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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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. Create a Sense of Urgency UWM recognized the pressing need to address equity gaps in student success. What does effective change leadership look like in practice?

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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

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 13, 2023

The beauty of bell’s work was that it was so accessible, it was not contained in the academy,” said Malaklou. Sharon Fries-Britt, professor of higher education at Maryland, wrote about the burdens of Black women in academia in their 2022 book "Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women: A Guide to Succeeding in the Academy."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2023

Here we are, Black folks with advanced degrees, book contracts, and a wealth of knowledge, absolutely helpless to our younger brothers and sisters mobilizing in Chicago’s streets, influenced by social media, mob mentality and in possession of guns. Is it the easy access to guns? Is it social media influence? Politicians.

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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

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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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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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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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The title of Eddie Ndopu ’s memoir, Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever , appears to be a metaphor for the way that disabled people need to constantly advocate for accessibility in a world that is not designed for them in mind. Constant advocacy takes a significant emotional toll.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward November 1, 2024 — by Holly Hexter Educators say campuses can maintain multicultural, supportive environments in the aftermath of mandates eliminating affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. She expressed confusion and tremendous frustration with regards to the way that she was being treated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s an appropriate topic, particularly in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, Donald Trump’s presidency, attacks on Critical Race Theory, the banning of books, and the recent dismantling of affirmative action by the U.S. To me, I think public schools represent the common good that everyone should have access to.”

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. For example, counselors can use bibliotherapy (use of books to address academic and mental health issues) to work with Mason and other students.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Wilkerson wrote The New York Times bestselling book, “ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ,” which was published in 2010. Her 2020 book, “ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent ,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Both texts were the subject of her keynote speech.

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 12, 2023

by Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz In a few months, all being well, we will be preparing to launch the book H i gher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures (HE4Good). This is the first in a series of blog posts in which we’ll reflect on the process of making the book – in other words, what we did (or tried to do) and why.

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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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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Revised FAFSA Release Date Pushed Back – What You Need to Know! McNair and Perseverance Blog Ronald E.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mason Award stands as the pinnacle of recognition bestowed by the Council for Opportunity in Education, celebrating extraordinary individuals who have made indelible contributions to the realm of college opportunity programs and the relentless pursuit of educational equity for low-income, first-generation students, and those with disabilities.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

We aim to demystify the graduate school application process, particularly for first-generation black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC, nontraditional, and low-income students who often lack access to essential resources. Our book, “ Is Grad School for Me? the Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico!

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