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Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. Dr. Brittany Williams, an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Vermont (UVM), always had a knack for Dr. Brittany Williams learning.

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As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Hopeful signs for a future beyond campus food pantries abound.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

These factors include, but are not limited to Black male initiatives, Black cultural organizations that help to facilitate a sense of belonging, culturally relevant pedagogical strategies, diverse faculty who demonstrate an ethic of care and support, and efforts to create an inclusive campus climate through antiracism. Dr. Tryan L.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

According to the complaint, Martinez Powless repeatedly raised concerns to her supervisor, human resources, and the college president about discrimination against a Black employee requiring accommodations. She also reported alleged disparaging comments made about Black employees.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award. Gayles holds a Ph.D.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Administrators, especially those who work closely with racially minoritized students in various capacities, must play a crucial role in this transition and require adequate support to navigate these changes effectively. These administrators (e.g., Here are four ways that institutions can provide practical support: 1.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. Rashad has done award-winning work in the performing arts, and has experience in theater, television, film, and fine arts administration. The chair was established in May 2021. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Dr. 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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MAY 22, 2024

She is a tenured associate professor and coordinator of the doctoral program of educational leadership for the College of Education and Human Development at Jackson State University (JSU). in educational leadership and administration from JSU. Wallace currently serves as ATE’s first vice president.

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JULY 10, 2024

Charletta Barringer-Brown A former Southside Virginia Community College administrator is alleging discrimination as a reason she was fired from her position. Barringer-Brown served as dean of the department of humanities, social sciences, and business at Southside Virginia.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. Many faculty and staff, she pointed out, have had to take on extra responsibilities from other positions that have gone unfilled.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. He also leads work at Humanities Indicators and holds a Ph.D.

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JULY 24, 2024

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Northwestern has one among its nine residential tax faculty. IRS employees are human. The true obstacle to building diverse law school faculties is often nothing more than old habits.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased. It becomes biased.”

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MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs. “An

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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MARCH 5, 2023

"The work that we do in the world is so important,” said Kinloch, describing her hopes for advancing equitable policies and practices that benefit students, faculty, staff, communities of people in schools, school districts, and universities around the world. “To

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JUNE 5, 2023

My research on workplace bullying in higher education confirms that underrepresented minorities are most likely to face workplace bullying; therefore, this position brings my research and administrative backgrounds together.” Dr. Leah P.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York believes in the dignity of all human beings regardless of ethnicity, race, color, gender, national origin, religion and disabilities,” said William C. Thompson Jr., chair of the CUNY Board of Trustees, which approved the center’s creation.

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MARCH 24, 2024

Bienvenu, SJ, Distinguished Chair in Humanities, and Professor and Co-Chair of Languages and Cultures at Loyola University New Orleans joined Dr. Carolin Aronis, an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, to call attention to the dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents on campuses over the last few years.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The increasingly aggressive stance toward the sector among both federal and state politicians, growth in faculty departures, ongoing staff burnout, and persistent dearth of enrollment among low-income, rural, and male-identified students are all troubling too. Rather than protecting the past, let’s move forward.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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MARCH 3, 2024

"The University of Florida is--and will always be--unwavering in our commitment to university human dignity," the memo read. " The University of Florida is an elite institution because of our incredible faculty who are committed to teaching, discovering, and serving," the memo added. They will receive 12 weeks of severance pay.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students. We have to really take a step back and think about who's training the teachers with degrees, certification, and licensure -- and that is college faculty. Our K-12 schools are more diverse than ever before.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. At the heart of those questions was a deep curiosity about how she overcame seeming insurmountable odds to become a world-renowned college administrator. “I

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Whitaker), shares his experiences of dealing with dishonor and racism, within his professional settings, when he writes: “In my own experience within the academy, I have also experienced The Look from faculty and staff colleagues. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Before Alabama A&M, she was a science education research assistant doing research on improving science education for urban students, particularly those of African descent, according to her faculty bio. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We

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MARCH 29, 2023

He spoke to an audience of AUC students, administrators, and fellow physicians about what society can do differently in mental health. Morehouse College has several professors exploring this subject and encouraging deeper conversations about understanding manhood and masculinity.

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APRIL 5, 2024

One line resonated deeply with me: "When you deny a voice, you deny humanity." These students are stripped of their humanity and forced into subservience to a white-dominated ideology. Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to experts in higher ed administrative diversity, the top two posts of minority serving institutions are routinely filled by people from minoritized backgrounds, but it remains vanishingly rare among PWIs. Experts and administrators agreed that a major problem is the lack of diverse candidates in the pipeline.

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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.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Model state legislation has been written — and if passed, would prohibit colleges from hiring DEI officers, spending money on DEI, and bar trainings that instruct staff/faculty to identify and fight against systemic racism. In SEL, equity becomes everyone’s work and not the work of a Chief Diversity Officer or DEI office.

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