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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Many hope their return signals a deeper commitment to prioritizing Black scholarship in ways that long-suffering, lesser-known Black scholars have not always experiencedeven at HBCUs. Many hope their return can be a prolonged watershed moment for prominent Black scholars returning to HBCUs. For what it's worth, I share in this hope.

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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. Williamss curiosity and quest for knowledge has pushed her beyond the silo of higher education administration into explorations of intersectional disciplines. Thats the meat and potatoes.

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AERA Names Dr. Tabbye Chavous as New Executive Director

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Chavous, currently vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan, brings more than 25 years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and academic administrator to the position. "At At a time when support for high-quality research is key to advancing education in the U.S.

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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

I was always advocating for students rights and issues, working with administration, leaders, and university presidents advocating for university students, says Briscoe of her time at ASU. That makes me attractive, and the work I do attracti Its not just funding organizations that pay attention to Briscoes scholarship.

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Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. But for many of us, these pressures only reinforce the importance of what we do.

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Western Michigan University Provost Heilig Steps Down After Two Years of Record-Breaking Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

For now, Heilig said that he will return to education policy scholarship and research, which he described as a transformative moment in politics, higher education, and society. Under his administration, the university strengthened its academic programs while focusing on equity and student success.

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Audit of Gallaudet University Shows Significant Administrative Salary Increases Amid Stagnant Academic Spending and Faculty Salaries

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 The evidence is clear that Gallaudet has very high and increasing administrative costs,” Bunsis writes about the private university that educates the deaf and hard of hearing. million) since 2019.

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A Scholarship of the Underserved to Inspire Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Wells Fargo Foundation donated $100,000 to help create scholarships for the school’s Corporate Work Program, which provides workforce opportunities that allow students to develop the needed skills, habits, and experience to be competitive in the job market postgraduation while contributing toward the cost of their education.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. The scholarship supports graduates from 38 designated high schools across Tennessee, renewable for up to four years and combinable with other scholarships. “If

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. The scholarship supports graduates from 38 designated high schools across Tennessee, renewable for up to four years and combinable with other scholarships. “If

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was extrajudicially murdered. Dr. Tryan L.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond. These administrators (e.g.,

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. Dr. Ruth M.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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. The current administration is led by a Latinx president and provost and includes more female leaders than ever before.

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Army Veteran and Doctoral Student Named Inaugural Winner of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. Burkett holds three degrees, including a degree in healthcare administration and public administration with an emphasis on human resources. A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S. She also holds an associate degree in supply chain logistics.

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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2025

Black Leadership Across Campuses) Summit, held on April 3, brought together university presidents, scholars, K-12 administrators, policymakers, and students for a candid three-hour discussion on systemic barriers and emerging threats to educational equity. The virtual B.L.A.C. Attorney Raymond C.

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Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging at Central Michigan University Honored at NASPA Conference

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

She also experiments with various modes of knowledge dissemination to ensure scholarship remains accessible, evidenced through projects like the podcast "Scholar Tea." The Bobby E.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. If a faculty member is assigned more teaching and/or more service, and has less time available for scholarship, they should be evaluated accordingly. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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Museum Studies Program Seeks to Diversify the Field

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Jorge Silva-Puras New-York Historical makes scholarships available, Paley said, with a new annual scholarship having recently been established by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang, board chair of New-York Historical. The program has more than 140 students currently enrolled, and 44 students have graduated from the program to date.

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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

“An accomplished legal scholar and a strong academic administrator, Professor Johanna Bond is uniquely qualified to serve as the dean of Rutgers University Law School,” said Dr. Antonio Tillis, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden.

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KELLY PELOQUIN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She attended the University of Miami on an athletics scholarship for swimming and received a degree in sports administration. Kelly Peloquin Kelly Peloquin has been named athletics director at Bronx Community College in New York. Peloquin served as assistant director.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway.

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NADOHE Presentation Maps Affirmative Action Aftermath

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Did the decision cover race-based scholarships? To address some of these questions, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE), the main advocacy group for diversity administrators, put on a webinar Wednesday, featuring Art Coleman. Racial preferences in hiring?

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Signs Bills to Bolster Volunteerism, Workforce, Police, Healthcare, and Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

HB 982 will create the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers, changing eligibility criteria for the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Police Officers and the Maryland Police Officers Scholarship Program to include probation agents. It also establishes the Pilot Program for Human Services Careers Scholarship.

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9 Grad Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

This year’s recipients truly embody the commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and civic engagement that Pat Cross championed throughout her distinguished career,” said AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. “We Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The 2024 K.

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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., As I made my way through higher education, I started to realize that it was my professors and other administrators that became mentors and examples for me. Dr. Lewis M. Anthony, Metropolitan Wesley A.M.E.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities Seek Greater Recognition and Funding

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of The American Indian College Fund, an organization promoting Native American access to higher education through scholarships and programmatic support. All this care comes with a consequence—it can lead to burn out, which can lead to faculty, staff, and administrators leaving their roles.

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McInnis to Lead Yale University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Maurie McInnis “Through immense challenges, under President Peter Salovey’s leadership, you have worked together to advance our mission of education, research, scholarship, preservation, and practice to improve the world,” said McInnis. For that, I thank you and, especially, Peter.

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10th Minority Male Initiative Set to Shape the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It also offers scholarships, internships, and career opportunities. grade point average to becoming an author, consultant and an administrator at Montclair State University. Daniel Jean is set to deliver the conference’s keynote address. Jean rose from abject poverty, progressing from a 1.9 mainframe computing communications media; 3.)

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. of non-LGBTQ people.

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Single Parents Breaking Barriers Through Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2019, we proudly launched the Single Parent Scholarship initiative, which provides financial assistance and support services to single parents who aspire to earn a college degree. This scholarship has proven instrumental in dismantling barriers and creating avenues for single parents to realize their academic and career pursuits.

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The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational (MCT) Foundation, Inc. Names 2022 MCT Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc is committed to providing support for African American, LatinX, and other underrepresented groups through scholarships, grants, and professional development. “I

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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Our responsibility as educators and administrators is to intentionally address their needs through a highly personalized holistic education plan tailored to their interests and goals. For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships.

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"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. Vassar, affectionately known now as “Dr.

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Dismantling the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. It resonated immediately in the context in which I heard it — in a gathering of religion scholars of color. The students have excelled. ·

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Students have the opportunity to work for either an administrative or academic department for up to 10 hours a week,” Oviedo says. Paying for students Multiple recipient schools told Diverse that they are using their Scott donations at least partially on scholarship programs. They are paid a competitive wage of $20 an hour.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Awarded 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig, dean of the University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Education, has been named the winner of the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) 2022 Linda C. Vasquez Heilig’s scholarly work is extensive, and he is well known for his scholarship regarding racial inequities in the U.S.’s

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Scholarship America Announces New Chief Growth Officer Abigail Seldin

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JANUARY 8, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS (January 8, 2024) – Scholarship America, the nation’s largest scholarship administrator, has selected Abigail Seldin as its new Chief Growth Officer. We are thrilled to welcome Abigail to the Scholarship America executive team,” said Scholarship America President and CEO Mike Nylund.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: December 2023 (Part 2)

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

The holidays may be a time to take a break from school, but they’re prime time to apply for scholarships! Of course, you can always find lots more scholarship options by visiting our Browse Scholarships page. Westlake Scholarship For more than 40 years, the James L. and Nellie M. and Nellie M. or higher on a 4.0

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Study: Minority Students Still Underrepresented in Public Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

The study – funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration – showed the presence of systemic barriers to higher education for minority students, such as financial burdens and lack of early exposure to public health sciences.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

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AERA Names Dr. Tabbye Chavous as New Executive Director

Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Understanding Academic Exile After the 2024 Election

Western Michigan University Provost Heilig Steps Down After Two Years of Record-Breaking Progress

Audit of Gallaudet University Shows Significant Administrative Salary Increases Amid Stagnant Academic Spending and Faculty Salaries

A Scholarship of the Underserved to Inspire Equity

Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Staying Woke for A Cause

Staying Woke for A Cause

They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Seal of Excelencia 2024

Army Veteran and Doctoral Student Named Inaugural Winner of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship

HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging at Central Michigan University Honored at NASPA Conference

Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Museum Studies Program Seeks to Diversify the Field

Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

KELLY PELOQUIN

An Equity and Access Champion

How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

NADOHE Presentation Maps Affirmative Action Aftermath

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Signs Bills to Bolster Volunteerism, Workforce, Police, Healthcare, and Education

9 Grad Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Award

Leadership Potential

Tribal Colleges and Universities Seek Greater Recognition and Funding

McInnis to Lead Yale University

10th Minority Male Initiative Set to Shape the Future

Pride in the Halls

Single Parents Breaking Barriers Through Higher Education

The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational (MCT) Foundation, Inc. Names 2022 MCT Scholars

Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

Dismantling the Academy

Investing in Community Colleges

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Awarded 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award

An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Scholarship America Announces New Chief Growth Officer Abigail Seldin

Featured Partner Scholarships: December 2023 (Part 2)

Study: Minority Students Still Underrepresented in Public Health

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