Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Ariella Robbins is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Villanova University, a post she has held since November 2024. Robbins also established Employee Resource Groups to provide support and engagement to faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. The recruitment and retention of Latino faculty is also an element of the Seal, and CSULB has the Latinx Faculty & Staff Association.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“Google’s investment is building on the work that is already underway on the campuses of Morehouse and Hampton to incorporate innovative uses of technology to educate students and support faculty. Google is setting the standard, and we’re calling on the entire tech industry and others in corporate America to follow Google’s lead.” Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mentorship, Community Building, & Collaborative Partnerships : Encouraging administrators to establish mentorship programs and affinity groups can facilitate connections and provide spaces for minoritized students to share experiences, challenges, and successes. We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The first Black woman in the position, she revamped the admissions process to make it more holistic, decreasing the emphasis on GPAs and GREs and adding opportunities for applicants to show their compassion, commitment to health equity, and how their life experiences had shaped them. Maybe that just makes people uncomfortable.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This observation is still very much the case today, and especially for people who come from historically underserved communities, completing higher education degree programs is the most effective approach available to combat the equity and wealth gaps that are prevalent across the nation. One people. One nation. One destiny. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Around one-third of institutions used technology to facilitate collaborative online international learning (COIL), such as course-level partnerships between students and faculty at home campuses and abroad.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This year, we chose these six fellows with projects focusing on various topics including the role of art and culture within the field of mental health, promoting anti-racism and health equity, and more. Maico Demi B. Baker Brianna A. Baker is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They say the role of department chair should be in service to an institution, fundamentally providing care, guidance, and support to not only faculty colleagues but to support staff and students as well. We have facilitated this forum to recognize the challenges you face.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In While Coe has had previous diversity officers, Jaamal operates in an expanded capacity, which is what students, faculty, and staff requested.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

John’s University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “You belong here.” Alexander, he adds, is unveiling how racial justice is either “facilitated or constrained by the broader legal environment.” John’s University; LL.M., UCLA School of Law; and J.D., At my core, that’s what drives and motivates me,” says Alexander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In short, the syllabus helps to create a structured and organized learning environment, facilitating effective communication and expectations between instructors and students. For example, faculty should focus on land-based learning that connects students to the land and Indigenous knowledge systems where possible. Dr. tavis d.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students. As the Hispanic population in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. “The California legislature put some caveats. Once they complete the course, they are assigned duties.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Through the Steve Fund’s Equity in Mental Health on Campus initiative and other programs, we have worked to support colleges and universities in creating campuses that enhance student belonging and support and sustain their mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Addressing health disparities means addressing access to healthcare equity,” she continues. Charles, a practicing physician, says the new undergraduate program provides a solid foundation and facilitates smooth transition to the graduate level and hopefully onto a long and productive career in public health.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. With this in mind, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte decided to evaluate its institutional policies through an equity lens using EAB’s 360-Degree Student Equity Audit. Were there any other reasons that pushed you to complete this audit?

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

The Outcomes: Streamlined platform lifts enrollment, cultivates collaboration between faculty and staff, and informs strategic investment decisions based on measurable impact on institutional goals. Their work has already resulted in enrollment improvements and significant enhancements in how faculty and advisors work together.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships? How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. Accessible campus community. Flexible academic pathways. December 20, 2022.

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EAB

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From DEI initiatives to post-COVID outcomes, explore EAB’s top content of 2022 below: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for Higher Ed. How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. How Thematic Major Clusters, Major Maps, and Faculty Mentorship Elevate the Student Experience.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Many are not doing well mentally or emotionally, and these big changes are readily apparent to faculty reporting ‘ stunning’ levels of disconnection and disengagement in their courses. Equip key campus stakeholders, especially faculty, with tools to provide basic support. blog: everyone has a role to play in student mental health.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 1, 2023

Lawrence Excellence in Advising Award for a faculty advisor is Melanie Carden-Jessen, an instructor in the Geology, Geography, and Planning Department. There will also be naming ceremony to recognize advising contributions from Kathy J. The recipient of the 2023 Curtis P. The recipient of the 2023 Curtis P.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One of Carleton College’s five pledges in its Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity plan is to increase representation of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other underrepresented groups in staff roles—a commitment their Chief Technology Officer Janet Scannell has taken concrete steps to deliver. Facilitate the work of the team. . May 12, 2022.

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

Better futures rely on engaging in this hard and hopeful work.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

What benefits do staff, faculty, and students gain from better data management? Retain more students and close equity gaps Retention and student equity efforts rely heavily on data; without establishing benchmarks and tracking progress toward KPIs, there is no meaningful way to judge progress.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Students were also encouraged to join and engage with peers, staff and faculty via online message boards, hosted on the PeopleGrove platform by the Tri-Mentoring Program (Ryerson’s peer-to-peer mentoring program). As such, we knew which faculties the participants came from as well as their entry point into Ryerson. What We Did.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

As experienced McNair program directors – Miroslava as the faculty director and Yvette as a former associate director – we understand the daunting task of unmasking the ‘hidden curriculum’ of successfully applying to graduate school. Networking complements femtorship, facilitating connections within academic circles and beyond.

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Timely MD

JULY 2, 2024

I think we have to do it with equity in mind, and ensuring that we aren’t creating exclusivity when the name of the game probably should be more inclusivity.” Looking to break down barriers to student success? Brown pointed to a change in how campus housing assignments were made after a casual conversation with a student.

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