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The Missing Link to Scaled Excellence and Equity in Community College Student Outcomes: A National Leadership Development Strategy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They educate close to 40% of American undergraduates — nearly 6 million students. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. The bad news: graduation rates remain under 50%, and many students who do graduate are not set up for success.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Today, the percentage stands at nearly 33%, marking a significant but measured progress in the landscape of academic leadership. This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia.

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HBCU Scholars Program Celebrates 10 Years with 2024 Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students from 77 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are set to participate as HBCU Scholars in the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona. We couldn’t be prouder to support them on their journey.”

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Developing Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also encompasses big things like leadership, talent management and coaching, and I lean more toward that,” says Mendoza, a third-year Ph.D. student in industrial organizational psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). She likes to think of it as business and psychology put together, but more people-focused. “It

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jabani Bennett Bennett began their tenure in 2023 with priorities that included breathing life into the new organizational mission, operationalizing the intersectional feminist and antiracist goals of the center, and co-creating leadership succession plans. I am not the expert, and I come to the students openhearted and ready to learn.”

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Miller Lite and HACU Partner to Offer Scholarships to Latinx Undergrads

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Miller Lite and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) are using their longstanding partnership to give 35 scholarships to eligible undergraduate Latinx students. And recipients of the Miller Lite Brewed to be Bright scholarship program will also be offered career development opportunities via HACU's ¡Adelante!

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Association Names Participants in Inaugural Department Chair Leadership Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re excited to add DCLI to our suite of leadership development programs and grateful for the support from our valued partners at Academic Search who made this possible,” said Dr. José A. AASCU Consulting offers the Department Chair curriculum onsite for members who prefer to bring the program to their campus.