Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released a new trustee guide intended to help higher education leadership proactively prepare for potential campus disruptions, such as those linked to antiwar protests last spring.

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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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JUNE 4, 2024

The award, presented by the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.), honors Yancy’s legacy as a scholar among African American women known for her work as an American academic, professor, and administrator. “It is a profound honor to be recognized with the Dr. Dorothy C. Yancy Vanguard Award,” said Pollard.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Fredrick Nafukho Nafukho will also become tenured faculty in the Department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business. I am honored to partner and collaborate with the diverse, creative and talented faculty, professional staff and student body.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Welton is chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. And prior to that, she was a faculty member in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Welton holds a Ph.D.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development. in counseling and counselor education and higher education from North Carolina State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Video 4 (“Digging Deep”) illuminates struggles faced by some Black male college and graduate students in STEM fields and highlights the uplifting power of peer support and faculty mentoring. Finally, Video 5 (“Of Triumph and Perseverance”) offers an illustration of a Black male success story. Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact is an excellent book that answers the question, what does it take to succeed as a Black professional in higher education leadership?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s an honor to join with Laker Nation’s faculty and staff to help cement its reputation as one of the best state universities in Georgia. I’m also incredibly grateful for the students, faculty and staff of AMSC. It’s been an honor to be a part of their journey toward success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., She would like to see underrepresented and marginalized students thrive and succeed in higher education. counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D.,

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JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Dr. Carl B. Terry Calaway is president emeritus, Johnson County Community College (KS).

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JUNE 30, 2024

Vincent, a seasoned higher education administrator, said he plans to return to the practice of law. We have seen before that HBCUs have experienced tremendous turnover in leadership at the presidency level," said Dr. Robert T. By 2022, that number shrunk to 5.9 Last month, Dr. Gregory J. Dr. Walter M.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Green College of Education. He has served as professor and dean at PVAMU, along with other senior leadership roles at the school. Outside of higher ed, McFrazier was a public-school teacher and administrator in the Waco Independent School District. He will lead PVAMU until Dr. Tomikia P. McFrazier holds a Ph.D.

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. Montgomery—an accomplished economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations—is African American. “Now

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If we endeavored to partner with the Kaw Nation on any grants for the purposes of collaboration, we often have administrative fees that take money that could be going to the Kaw Nation but goes toward our administrative infrastructure — the same administrative infrastructure founded using land dispossessed from the Kaw people.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Education Hispanic serving institution (HSI) designation in 2016; received the Seal of Excelencia certification in 2021; created the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement; developed the Engineering Technology/Cyber Security Research Center; and established the Institute for Autism and Related Disorders. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

What followed was an impressive career in academe that took him to several institutions across the country as a professor and later as an administrator. During his time at the helm, he and his leadership team improved the six-year graduation rate from 39.4% He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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MARCH 27, 2024

Albany State University recently announced its president, Dr. Marion Ross Fedrick, had been appointed executive vice president for administration and chief of staff at Georgia State University, effective July 1. Some change or turnover at the senior-most level of higher education leadership should be expected. It’s a tough job.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Before López’s current appointment, she served in a similar role as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston. Dr. Ruth M. Her research is groundbreaking,” says Moses. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

What followed was an impressive career in academe that took him to several institutions across the country as a professor and later as an administrator. During his time at the helm, he and his leadership team improved the six-year graduation rate from 39.4% He went on to earn a Ph.D. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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JULY 4, 2023

Cook holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics and a master’s degree in agronomy and educational administration and supervision from Alcorn State, and a doctorate and specialist degree in educational leadership from William Carey University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

She is also a member of the California Association of Latino Community College Trustees and Administrators and Community College League of California Affordability.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on. Representation Matters : Increase the representation of linguistically diverse faculty and staff. student within the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at Howard University.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Academic leadership: Developing a pipeline of leaders for academic positions, including department chairs, deans, and academic program directors. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership and an MBA from Clemson, and a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of South Carolina. She has a proven track record as a collaborator with all campus stakeholders and as a strong leader.” Richardson holds a Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 23, 2022

She brings more than a decade of experience in higher education leadership roles that have required strategic planning and execution of diversity-related efforts.

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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 I wanted to be a dean at a college or school of education that mattered.”

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MARCH 29, 2024

Dr. Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. “I Washington is the president and co-founder of Washington Consulting Group (WCG).

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Just look at the pictures of your campuses’ faculty, and pay close attention to upper administration. Hughes is Dean, School of Education, Health and Human Behavior and professor of Educational Leadership | College Student Personnel at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Naw, we are not there yet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

“It was like, ‘I gotta do this school thing so I can get a job and when there's time, I'll feed the creative part of my spirit.’” Livingston received his master’s degree in higher education administration from Columbia University, a second master's degree from Harvard University in learning and teaching, and his Ph.D.

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Civitas Learning

JULY 9, 2024

The Office of Appreciative Education at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is spearheading this effort by helping leaders apply the same principles used in Appreciative Inquiry and advising to every level of their institution from the top down.

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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. It is part of Bonner’s “Diverse Faculty in the Academy” series with Routledge. Nicholas D.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Sacramento State was critical to Wood’s ascension to academic and administrative stardom after a difficult childhood. After graduating from Sacramento State with a bachelor’s in Black History and Politics, Wood returned for his master’s in Higher Education Leadership. I would expect its faculty and staff to become more diverse.”

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Gay’s answers during that Congressional hearing were most likely prepared and drafted by the school's legal counsel, and responsibility for those answers should not just fall solely on Gay, argued Dr. Jorge Burmicky, an assistant professor of higher education leadership and policy studies at Howard University.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

De mocratizing Information Traditionally, just a few key administrators have had access to institutional data. Civitas Learning is changing this by democratizing data and integrating actionable insights into intelligent workflow tools that faculty and staff need daily. Empower teams to drive successful outcomes for students right now.

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