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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

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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. I grew up reading more magazines than newspapers. The latter plays itself out most powerfully on the front cover.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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11, 2007), has now published his seventh book and moved into administration at The University of Texas at Austin. In the magazine world, the most important feature is the cover story. We never set out to be an advocacy magazine. We were always an informational magazine at least in our news reporting.” (See

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Positive Pluralism: The Next Phase in the Evolution of the Academy?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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Access Agreement Will Allow Independent Testing at Poe Hall

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Since then, hundreds of former and current students, teachers, staff, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall have reached out to lawyers and local news agencies across the city of Raleigh to share that they are sick, many with cancer. 15 magazine issue of Diverse , where readers can learn more about the health crisis.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Jackson and a few other African American students came together and created a list of recommendations that was submitted to administration and prompted the formation of a task force. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.”

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

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The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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New Book Centers the Voices of Black Women Department Chairs

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It is filled with information based on lived experiences of Black women who are currently administrators. Regardless of your heritage, background, or identity, we hope viewing higher education through the multidimensional lens of Black women administrators will improve your leadership vision,” the editors write in the book’s introduction.