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What to Expect When Expecting a DEI Layoff

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a first-generation Black college graduate from a low-income family, I reaped the benefits of mentorship from faculty and staff who come from similar backgrounds. Their guidance helped me discover my true calling in higher education, ultimately leading me to secure my dream job at UT. I believed the next job might fill the gap.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. “We

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Black Women Navigating the Path to College Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this article, we share the perspectives of three Black female CEOs and our rise to the college presidency. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students. This experience shifted my worldview and activated my commitment to social justice.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Both are first-generation college students, grew up in migrant farming communities, have a background in mathematics, and served as president of MCCCD institutions (before Gonzales became chancellor of MCCCD). I can relate to some of those fears and unknowns as a first-generation student when you just don’t know what you don’t know.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bendapudi, who told the helm of Penn State in 2022 after serving as president of the University of Louisville from 2018 to 2021, declined to comment for this article. “We want to retain the faculty, but we also want them to be competitive,” said Whitehurst. Morale is low, in fact.”

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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.