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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A.,

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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Chua had intended as a semi-comedic study of parenting at a cultural intersection quickly became a hotly contested book. “A If you actually read the book, you realize that it gets really complicated. Through her open, human connection with her students, she is able to guide them on pathways that may or may not be traditional.

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Intrigued by Bats

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of Maryland Career mentors: Claudia Coen, Irby Lovette, John Hermanson, and Dan Riskin, all at Cornell University; Brock Fenton, Western University; Jerry Wilkinson, University of Maryland; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Damien Farine Jr., He read every book he could on the species.

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

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Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

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counselor education & supervision, The Ohio State University Career mentors: Dr. James L. Mayes has excelled as a scholar and researcher to the extent that she has published over 44 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed., Dr. Renae D.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. To simply pursue it because it’s on-trend is irresponsible.

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Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves: Living Life on Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says. Lima-Neves has lived in the U.S.