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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Charleston, vice chancellor for inclusive excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There’s few professional conferences that engage scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, community-goers that span the pipeline from K-12 through graduate professional in the academy and beyond,” he said. The issues in the U.S.

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Dr. Toby S. Jenkins, University of South Carolina

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At the University of Maryland, College Park she created sustainable inclusive excellence initiatives that have served students on that campus for over 20 years. Jenkins other community outreach initiatives won awards from the President of the United States and the Governor of Maryland.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forging strategic partnerships Williams’s ability to connect HBCU students to graduate programs caught the attention of Emory University, where he would be recruited in 2014 as the director of Diversity, Community and Recruitment. It’s not easy to do inclusive excellence work in higher education. Our discipline is hard.

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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

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There she oversees all aspects of academic affairs, ranging from education to diversity and inclusion. I have a lot of goals and ideas around students and creating a really inclusive culture and addressing issues of access and affordability,” Gilliam told Diverse. I'm very interested in how we can be more externally engaged.

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Xavier University Makes History with First HBCU Varsity Rowing Program

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Additional backing has come from Cooper's A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund and JL Athletics, demonstrating the rowing community's commitment to expanding access to the sport. The program is led by Dr. Elizabeth Manley, a Xavier history professor and department chair, and Chlo Jobin from NORC's community outreach team.