Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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was in the fifth grade when the ideals of justice and civil rights were emblazoned into the mind of the man who has spent much of his storied career fighting for diversity and equity in education. She was teaching us the ideals of Black Pride long before the term was a thing. Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Kyung Kate Hyun, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and deputy director of The Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions, and Dollars at the U.S. Department of Transportations University Transportation Center.

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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. USC Rossier presented her its 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities. Cristobal Salinas Jr., affect the day-to-day lives of students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Dr. Ruth M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

This year’s recipients truly embody the commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership, and civic engagement that Pat Cross championed throughout her distinguished career,” said AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella. “We Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For the past three years, it’s been teaching others to do the same, seeking to expand what the face of museum studies looks like. Jorge Silva-Puras New-York Historical makes scholarships available, Paley said, with a new annual scholarship having recently been established by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang, board chair of New-York Historical.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. Vassar, affectionately known now as “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ko Th e lack of diversity is mirrored in the computer science teaching force. In addition to the teaching the principles of computer science pedagogy, STEP CS seeks to offer a justice perspective, to explore how computer science relates to bias, discrimination, and oppression. According to Dr. Amy J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

During a rousing presidential address on Thursday, Martínez-Alemán asked participants to consider moving “beyond the predicable geography of our research and scholarship” and to “go into the neighbor’s front yard and consider what you see there.” I am very big on resiliency research, HBCUs and mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

On March 7, Dr. Shaun Harper, university professor, provost professor of education, business and public policy, and the founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, was watching a livestream from the U.S. Owens called diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “demeaning and racist.” Dr. Toby S. Dr. Liliana M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

On Wednesday, Alabama A&M University, the largest HBCU in the state, launched an effort to tackle the problem: AAMUTeach, a program allowing STEM majors to get a secondary school teaching certification while earning a bachelor’s, without any additional time or cost. If the student likes teaching, they can move to the rest of the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Providing a high-quality education for all children — which is crucial for achieving equity —begins with educators.” We hope there won’t be a teacher shortage in 10 years because teachers will feel supported and valued, and teaching will be seen as a noble profession,” said Megan Kirsch Marsal. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. This is praxis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Foundations continue to focus on awarding scholarships to students who navigate and matriculate in college with ease. This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion. Teach me and I remember. So, these students are often unnoticed and left behind as well. Do we know it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. It’s scholarship in a different form.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

And my equity journey continues. But my longtime concerns for him as a parent have grown more severe in today’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion climate. Disparate voices, opinions, and teachings blended in one campus environment designed to help students learn, think independently, and grow. Dr. Susan D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Neither does teaching. He remembers being a PhD student who loved to write, research and teach, but felt uncertain whether there was a place for him in the academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Toldson CRT is a body of scholarship that spans more than 40 years, which examines the ways in which structures of power and privilege are embedded within existing social, cultural, and legal systems. They are claiming that CRT is teaching children that white people are inherently bad, and that America itself is a racist country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. Harvard adopted testing in 1934 to select scholarship recipients followed by many other institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Bennett received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a concentration in painting and a minor in the Spanish language and a master’s degree in teaching in art education with an English as a second language endorsement (PreK-12) from the UofL. They received their Doctor of Education in leadership from Spalding University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. He wrote the foundational text in my speech courses.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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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. This means seeing Black history and culture represented in the courses they take and the professors who teach them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For instance, partnerships with local community organizations can provide leadership development, internships, and scholarships tailored to Latine learners, while fostering a connection to space and place and bolstering a learner’s sense of belonging. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And throughout his teaching career, he has encouraged his students to study abroad. “Dr. That hurdle, that barrier is being lowered by many more scholarship opportunities at universities and colleges to create opportunity for students to study abroad.” colleges studying in Japan and students from Japan studying in the U.S.,”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” Smith teaches graduate courses but is interested in teaching an undergraduate honors class on education philanthropy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., She loves teaching and seeing students gain more nuanced thinking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. We also provide scholarships if they do get into UCLA or UC,” says Alexander. The California legislature put some caveats.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Since then, the number of scholarships has significantly increased, which has brought increased diversity. “In “Because of the range of programs we have, there are many career paths,” Carter says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s one of the reasons I’m so sad with the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in southern states, because they are diversifying fast and DEI is a practical response to making sure you have a work environment that’s collaborative and successful for all the members of the campus, and that includes your students.” asks Delgado.

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