Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The legacy of racial inequities in education is not an abstraction; it is a lived reality that resonates both with the students we serve and within the leadership spaces we occupy. As Black community college presidents, we carry both the hope and the expectation that our leadership will dismantle the very barriers we once faced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction. Prior to that, she was Dean of Instruction for Transfer and Pre-College Education at Highline, from July 2008 to March 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

Under the guidance and visionary leadership of our current President and CEO, Dr. Michael Lomax , ICB officially launched in 2006. It's about building strong institutions with strong leadership, sustainable financial models, and effective governance. The first is institutional excellence. Take HBCUv for example.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Under the leadership of Charles Hamilton Houston, who served as dean from 1929 to 1935, the law school helped develop the strategic litigation plan that would eventually end legal segregation in the United States. "Its enduring legacy, constantly tested and reinterpreted, demands rigorous study in our universities today."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has announced its selection of 36 higher education professionals for the inaugural cohort of its Department Chair Leadership Institute (DCLI). AASCU Consulting offers the Department Chair curriculum onsite for members who prefer to bring the program to their campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A dozen higher education institutions have been selected to participate in the Equitable and Inclusive Curriculum-to-Career Models Project, according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). This work is necessary for advancing higher education, student success, and our economy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Known for a dedication to fostering inclusion, Reis has a history of championing initiatives that promote representation and innovation in media education and is an accomplished scholar with research interests in environmental journalism, international communication, and the role of media in society. How do you measure success in this area?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The private Roman Catholic university boasts a leadership of majority women, with women leading all four of the school's academic schools as deans. So women in leadership is not new to our institution by any stretch of the imagination. The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. In 2023, CUNY s Board of Trustees charged the Universitys leadership including myself to fix the transfer system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Paxson received the 2023 TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. I am honored to receive this award celebrating the legacy of Father Hesburgh and his commitment to education and service," Paxson said. She was recently elected to the board of directors for the American Council of Education (ACE).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Educators who train and prepare students to become teachers, gathered this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) to call attention to the ongoing challenges that face K-12 learning. AURORA, Colo.— Now, we’re not just polarized about policy but about each other,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Title :Assistant Dean for Student Vitality & Career Development and Director of Student Affairs Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Virginia; MBA in Business Administration, Averett University; Ph.D This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

There is little doubt that education will prove crucial to the economic development of Nigeria, a country where 63% of residents live with some form of deprivation. However, exactly what needs to be done for the educational system to reach its full potential is far less certain. Panelists at the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Forum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Historically, the leadership of organizations, including institutions of postsecondary education, has rested within the dominant white, cis-gendered male culture. Black Americans slowly gained access to higher education, with Alexander Twilight credited as the first Black man to receive a bachelor’s degree in 1823.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

He attended a school that specialized in science and while still a teenager in 1983 came alone to the United States to pursue higher education. Like most people, I did not set out to lead an institution of higher education,” he added. “I There is also the proximity to family, particularly grandchildren who reside in Brooklyn, New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor's Note: With the exception of the last section about an Anti-Racist, Culturally Competent Special Education Model, the content in this article comes from a recently accepted journal manuscript. CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to examine racialized resegregation in special education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Civil rights organizations — including the National Urban League, National Action Network, NAACP, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., 2, in Nashville, Tennessee. As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown v.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It’s Up to Us; and We Must Work Together in New Ways Higher education and its mission to build a democratic, prosperous, and equitable society is under attack. The active marginalization of specific identities from education or the curriculum thwarts these objectives and the promises of higher education for all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Centering Black Children in Education (CBCE) is mounting a movement. Created in 2021, CBCE consistently provides a powerful counter-narrative to challenge systemic racism and educational inequities through groundbreaking programming and initiatives. Our collective ultimate aim is liberatory education for Black children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Janel George The panel – part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s larger National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice (NREI) Summit – brought together experts to discuss contemporary attacks against the inclusion of Black history in societal awareness and education. But they've been pushed out of a lot of leadership roles."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) has moved from Tufts University to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). democracy – will now be an AAC&U presidential initiative and focus on threats to democracy through research, convenings, and faculty and curriculum development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

The missions of higher education and policing differ, yet each occupies well-known and established community spaces. Much like higher education, policing nationwide continues to wrestle with unparalleled demographic shifts, persistent public scrutiny, and questionable legitimacy. police officers. police officers. Dr. Neil D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

as its 26th president, marking a significant leadership transition at one of the nation's Rev. Since joining the university's Campus Ministry in 2002, he has been instrumental in advancing several key initiatives, including formative education programs and Core Curriculum renewal. Boston College announced the appointment of Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. She will replace Dr. Shaun R. Dr. Jessica T. Harper agrees. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

We are only a few weeks into the fall semester, and already the leadership coming and going lists are growing. This week, Academic Search released a report outlining the seven leadership competencies current presidents identify to succeed in these high-stakes roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders. These actions reflect a concerted campaign to wrest control over America's classrooms away from the educators who are directly responsible for shaping the minds of future generations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Benton-Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in curriculum and instruction, both from Tennessee State University, as well as a doctorate in higher education leadership from Argosy University Sarasota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Watson holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Houghton College and master’s degrees in mathematics education from Syracuse University and in teaching and curriculum from the University of Rochester. in educational leadership and management from Drexel University. He earned an Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Reflecting back on my elementary education, I believe having Black teachers not only shaped my identity to have pride in being a Black American, but it also normalized having Black teachers as being a way of life. Subsequently, I was motivated to be a seeker of truth and one who grew to have pride as a Black educator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Officials said her leadership has strengthened the curriculum, instituted best practice policies and academic admission standards, raised the student profile and graduation rates, reduced tuition, and reaffirmed SACS-COC accreditation with no recommendations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex Red Corn Title: Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Kansas State University College of Education. Age: 39 Education: B.S., education, University of Kansas; M.S., education, University of Kansas; and Ed.D., The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As a former educator on the south side of Chicago, I know firsthand the excitement and challenges of launching a new school year. As educators and school leaders, we have to prioritize mental health from day one. In my years as an educator, I’ve seen firsthand how a proactive approach can transform a school’s culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

AAUP stressed the importance of educators having freedom in their teaching to choose materials and approaches. “In In a democracy, higher education is a common good which requires that instructors have full freedom in their teaching to select materials and determine the approach to the subject,” the statement read.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke. Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. Dr. Gary G.

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