Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Jacquez Gray Jacquez Gray has been named assistant director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Crystal Eufemia Garcia’s research examines the mechanisms by which racially minoritized college students experience campus environments. Garcia co-chairs the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mentor-Protégé Program, a leadership role among others in her professional organization memberships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Patricia Cross Award — in honor of the legacy of distinguished university administrator, researcher, and teacher K. Patricia Cross — recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC). As president, he added that his goals include discerning which student age groups need more support and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Holyoke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. For her Ph.D., she decided it was time to take the leap.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Several months ago, a fellow CDO confided in me about his abrupt reassignment from a leadership role to a non-administrator position with little connection to DEI work. CDOs should actively seek allies across their institutions, including faculty, staff, and student groups who share a commitment to DEI. Harrison Davis, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Many believe, including college administrators, that students will come forward and self-identify and ask for help and support. This student population is very difficult to recruit and engage. Jennifer Geiger, an associate professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago, agreed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Do no harm. But he knew the church did not approve of homosexuality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Administrative leadership: Identifying individuals with leadership potential for administrative roles, such as finance, human resources, information technology, and student affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Before coming to Otero, Alvarez was a senior fellow for NASPA (student affairs administrators in higher education) and a vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University. It was eye-opening for students and faculty. He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. The IU Higher Education and Student Affairs Program allowed Ph.D. It was love at first sight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Many are helping each other navigate their sense of duty to their students of color, to their community, to their families, and to themselves. There’s this unfair labor that is thrust upon us because, when we really think about it, the organization, the institution, refuses to invest in diversity and equity,” said Commodore.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Point Foundation Scholars “Students posted videos on Tik Tok of them having to pull down the rainbow flag and to shutter the doors,” says Hall. of non-LGBTQ people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

The waves of initiatives and policies against the teaching of diversity, equity, and inclusivity will prevent all school children from learning about great people of color, such as John Mercer Langston. A member of the Youngkin Administration recently stated that “DEI is dead.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Dr. Jane Close Conoley In terms of data, administration analyzes persistence rates, graduate rates, enrollment yield rates, GPA levels, the average number of credits taken per semester, financial aid needs, technology needs, and housing and food insecurity needs. Dr. Erika D.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Are there specific barriers in your digital onboarding process that are keeping students from matriculating? How long does a prospective student have to wait for follow-up outreach after expressing interest? Are your student administrative tasks user-friendly? More on modernizing your student experience.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Administration, Finance, and Operations Institutions’ budget models often fail to reinforce campus priorities and commitments, instead locking them into damaging cost structures, underfunding strategic priorities, and creating harmful incentives. But the administrative infrastructure of a campus has an equally key role to play.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it. Jerlando F. Jackson meets with Kristine L.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Attrition was seen as driven by student inaction, and advisors began launching focused outreach campaigns targeted at unregistered students with the goal of removing their administrative and financial barriers and securing registration.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Further information is available on the Office of Institutional Equity website ; the complete policy can be found here. Thank you, Rachelle Hernandez Vice Provost for Student Affairs Branville Bard Vice President for Public Safety Regardless, we will continue our efforts to work toward a peaceful resolution.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings. My colleague Madeleine Rhyneer recently fielded a survey with enrollment and admissions leaders, and Differentiating the Student Value Proposition was among the top three priorities cited.

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Timely MD

JULY 2, 2024

Brown responded, “While I do think that there is an opportunity to kind of create some aspirational goal for students, they want to achieve a certain level to have access to certain things. Looking to break down barriers to student success?

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As part of the TimelyCare GenZtressed webinar series , a panel of health equity, mental health, and student affairs leaders explored the need for and benefits of inclusive care delivery that embraces all students. As Batista noted, finding a solution requires commitment from institutional administration.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. I prefer to talk about leadership rather than administration, because administration connotes bureaucracy. We can't escape that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

The annual scholarship is meant for matriculating students in master’s or doctoral programs in student affairs or higher ed administration-related fields. Dion Harry Harry is a North Carolina State University doctoral candidate studying higher education opportunity, equity, and justice.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So, when I learned about the opportunities CSU Global provided for non-traditional adult and working students -- fully online, available-anytime-anywhere-type services -- that vision reconciled with what I’d heard my father speak about.” Before entering education, she worked in private equity doing turnarounds, or bridge financing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Wood is currently San Diego State University’s (SDSU) vice president for student affairs and campus diversity and chief diversity officer. And if Sac State could make a person like me successful, then they can help create that kind of pathway for any student.” Luke Wood, a Sac State alum, was appointed to the position today.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

The health and safety of our colleagues and our students to put at the forefront. A long-overdue spotlight on equity, diversity and inclusion shining on all of our operations. While I was growing up, my dad had a good job as a radiology tech and then hospital administrator. There are regulatory matters to consider.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. We acknowledge that more work needs to be done to right the many wrongs imposed on Black males. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

So while student affairs and campus safety, and again, university communications may take the lead in responding to a particular incident, it's critical that all institution leaders have this baseline understanding of the current flashpoint landscape. That certainly, those conversation happening on a very regular basis.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Additionally, we as educators and student affairs practitioners must deeply engage the voices of learners with marginalized identities, and ensure those voices are guiding our actions to begin to reduce the disparities highlighted in my research above. Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Despite opposition from student groups and after a number of faculty and staff resignations, the replacements have taken place. South Dakota is just one example of Republican-led states taking action against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in academia. In terms of day-to-day administration, Crazy Bull points to teamwork. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the same time, scholars are working around the clock to stave off ongoing anti-DEI legislation that has already taken hold in states like Florida and Texas, where many politicians campaigned against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The administration also implemented a 12-month repayment “on-ramp” from Oct.

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