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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum. And there are plenty of clues to the nature of that curriculum.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Venture capitalist John Martinson is donating $3 million to NJIT to broaden and deepen the curriculum and real world experiences for top scholars at the Albert Dorman Honors College and throughout the university. Applications and enrollment are at record highs as is the diversity of the student body. Research activity is ahead of last year.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In May 2018, COD’s board of trustees approved a $1 million investment to support a diverse group of 23 faculty and administrators to participate in Kansas State University’s (KSU) doctoral Community College Leadership Program (CCLP), the first cohort known colloquially as the CCLP Roadrunner cohort. in community college leadership.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life. She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s [an] optimal time for new leadership,” said Fox. They have leadership and co-curricular programming. The central value of transmitting women’s heritage and issues in the curriculum and the way Mary Baldwin’s history is celebrated are maintained. Some of the didactic and professional curriculum were flipped.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although Jackson was in a leadership role, it was her first. Mamie Williams “Many of them noted that they face these challenges and really thought about leaving leadership because they did not have the resources they needed to support them in their role,” says Williams. “It’s traumatic. I have sons,” says Jackson.