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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

To this end, we have noticed a disconnect between the recommendations researchers have proposed to help increase college access and success among Black men and policy and practical implementations at micro and macro levels. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Federal Fumbles and Candidate Silence. How the Next Administration Can Support Education Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

How will the next president uplift education and help implement policies that allow our students to affordably pursue bachelor’s degrees, which still offer the surest route to success?

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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since taking the helm in 2020, Jenkins has orchestrated a data-driven renaissance that has revolutionized student success rates and institutional effectiveness. Rather than accepting this as inevitable, his administration launched a comprehensive analysis of student data, policies, and practices.

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Rewriting the Script: How HBCUs Are Shifting the Future of Graduate Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From the heart of tradition and the fire of resistance, a new wave of graduate programs in higher education administration is emergingbold, equity-centered, and unapologetically Black. Across the nation, HBCUs are rapidly launching and expanding Masters, EdD, and PhD programs in higher education administration.

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Racialized Agency as a Buffer for K-16 Black Students in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

faculty, staff, and administrators) are highly underrepresented, which is a crisis. To state the obvious, it is vital that administrators recruit and retain more Black STEM professionals in STEM and in the curriculum, particularly math and sciences courses in K-12 and in STEM majors. CURRICULUM MODIFICATIONS. MENTORING MATTERS.

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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Her mentors at ASU, Briscoe says, truly encouraged her to understand the significance of education and valuing Black thought.

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Dr. Lester McCorn Selected to Lead Paine College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McCorn is a proven leader who has demonstrated a clear and concise vision for institutional change, while identifying and executing a comprehensive plan designed to achieve successful student outcomes,” said Michael Thurmond, Chairman of the Paine College Board of Trustees.