Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

In his new book, From Foster Care to College , Dr. Royel M. Johnson, an associate professor and director at the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education, shines a light on an often-forgotten subset of students. There are over 400,000 youth in the foster care system.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So, when I learned about the opportunities CSU Global provided for non-traditional adult and working students -- fully online, available-anytime-anywhere-type services -- that vision reconciled with what I’d heard my father speak about.” Before entering education, she worked in private equity doing turnarounds, or bridge financing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings. Dr. Erik M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

higher education & student affairs, Ohio State University; M.LHR, human resource management, Ohio State University; and Ph.D., Stewart began teaching as a tenure-track assistant professor at Iowa State in August 2019, after going back to school to receive a doctorate in college student counseling and personnel services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Sharon Fries-Britt, professor of higher education at Maryland, wrote about the burdens of Black women in academia in their 2022 book "Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women: A Guide to Succeeding in the Academy." Contributing authors shared stories of resiliency and fortitude built by leaning on each other in toxic environments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2023

Here we are, Black folks with advanced degrees, book contracts, and a wealth of knowledge, absolutely helpless to our younger brothers and sisters mobilizing in Chicago’s streets, influenced by social media, mob mentality and in possession of guns. I don’t recall reading a book as having ever killed a child. Politicians. Share ideas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Twelve years ago, in his book Strategic Diversity Leadership: Activating Change and Transformation in Higher Education , DEI scholar and thought leader Dr. Damon A. Systemic equity gaps and disparities continue to persist across demographic groups, particularly impacting our most vulnerable students.

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