Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although a full discussion of HICC is beyond the scope of this opinion editorial, we begin with the working definition proposed by Billy Vaughn and the Diversity Officer Magazine : “…an ability to successfully negotiate cross-cultural differences in order to accomplish practical goals.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013. During his time at UNC, he founded the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; led the school’s $1.2 In 2011, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on sport-related concussions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” Sponsored research awards tripled and more than 325 tenure-track faculty members were hired. You can’t be in the academy if you don’t have the best faculty and support those faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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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. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

As Turner Kelly recalls, that year many Black faculty members were called upon to make statements and became de facto representatives of their institution’s commitment to diversity by virtue of their identity. Fries-Britt said that, when she first became a faculty member, she was struck by the culture of bullying that existed in academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M. Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. … Dr. Rebecca S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Launch committees are groups of experienced faculty and administrators that will create programming for new faculty members to plan out their career trajectories, build rapports, and develop mentor relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. Its master’s degree program in Diné Culture, Language, and Leadership required the institution to hire new faculty members and save money for a research library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there. Rutgers AAUP-AFT – it represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors – went on strike from April 10 to April 14, 2023, Givan said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell. Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr. Another current project is a short film that will document the stories of women who have been part of the JCSU faculty and staff for over 30 years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. It was originally conceived and developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and has since grown to more than 120 other colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color. Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Conway-Turner, who will retire at the end of this academic year after nine years as president of Buffalo State, has had a stellar 43-year career as a faculty member and administrator. In her career, Conway-Turner advanced from faculty to dean to administration. Students, faculty and staff, everybody was concerned. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As I moved from a faculty role into more administrative work, the words stayed with me though they no longer informed text selection, course design, or other personal pedagogical practices. It resonated immediately in the context in which I heard it — in a gathering of religion scholars of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Smith says Claflin nursing faculty have gone above and beyond to offer psychosocial support to the students. She credits the faculty for creating an environment where students feel safe discussing their concerns while continuing their education with sustained quality. MacNeil School of Nursing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee. Before López’s current appointment, she served in a similar role as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

Another achievement is that she managed to hire two-thirds of the music school’s faculty during her time as dean, said Montgomery, who also expresses regret in not being able to recruit more faculty members of color, primarily Latinx and African American faculty. It’s certainly not for lack of trying,” Montgomery said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.” “Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2023

The work that we do in the world is so important,” said Kinloch, describing her hopes for advancing equitable policies and practices that benefit students, faculty, staff, communities of people in schools, school districts, and universities around the world. “To Valerie Kinloch’s end goal as an education scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when some Americans are questioning the value of higher education, Gittleman — who joined the faculty at Tufts University in 1964 and rose through the ranks to serve as provost from 1981 to 2002, before he retired in 2015 — says criticism of higher education is nothing new. But truth be told, he most certainly is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Its first cohort of students is slated to arrive in fall 2023, and the department is in the process of hiring a sixth tenure-track faculty member. DeSanti is also hoping to hire additional fulltime faculty following several departures and retirements. There have been cutbacks throughout the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Before Alabama A&M, she was a science education research assistant doing research on improving science education for urban students, particularly those of African descent, according to her faculty bio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Although it was difficult to sustain a sense of community when people were working remotely, “I was still very proud of our faculty,” Alvarez said. It was eye-opening for students and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Newson-Horst is a Spelman graduate who was impacted by Guy-Sheftall and other Spelman faculty who inspired her to take on similar challenges. Courses were developed by various faculty members as far back as 2012, but the process stalled for several years until White stepped up and took the reins. “We and globally.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. In October, the college publicized a #NationalStressAwarenessDay social media campaign.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Odle said Ivy League schools are increasingly global institutions, and Shafik’s presidency can be an asset for the university in attracting international faculty as well as developing international programs. This would include eliminating practices such as preferences for legacies and the children of donors and faculty members.

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