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JUNE 5, 2024

Stewart has been appointed executive vice president and provost at Hampton University, effective July 1. Stewart “I hope to cultivate a culture of care and support within our university community, advocating for the success and happiness of students, faculty, and staff alike,” said Stewart. Dr. Betty H. Williams. “I

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Hallock More prospective University of Richmond students will qualify for Richmond’s Promise to Virginia thanks to changes to the initiative, which targets first-time, first-year students who meet certain income and need-based financial aid criteria.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Washington State University’s historic College Hill home in Pullman will be renamed in honor of Ida Lou Anderson, one of WSU’s first female faculty. Anderson made her mark on radio broadcasting and the field of communications, serving as a mentor and adviser to famed WSU alum and broadcast journalist Edward R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

More than 80% of college faculty and staff members have noticed increasing demand among online learners for mental health services this past school year, according to a new survey from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and teletherapy company Uwill. It's not why they chose the online education in the first place.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Faculty orientations and continuing a culture of mentoring January 31, 2023 Kristen McCauliff Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Ball State University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina. McMickens During an interview with Diverse , McMickens recalls an op-ed column written by a Black student in The Daily Pennsylvanian , the University of Pennsylvania student newspaper.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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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). The report’s lead researcher, Dr. Becca Franssen, is a partner at the British talent-search firm GatenbySanderson, where she helps British universities fill executive roles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Throughout my academic journey, I’ve had very different mentors — from clinical to lifeline, including those with diverse backgrounds. The feedback I received from my lifeline mentor was not always what I wanted to hear, but it was the honest truth. To be an effective mentor, you must know how to apply your support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. The office offers academic and financial support, faculty and resource connections, and peer mentorship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Katina Lang-Lindsey, an assistant professor at Alabama A&M University, has been named among the newest cohort of Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators ( ELEVATE ) at the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. There is a structured approach to CAMP, which exists at colleges and universities around the U.S., There is a structured approach to CAMP, which exists at colleges and universities around the U.S., Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Powell was the epitome of excellence and elevated the lives of many at Temple University," said Temple President Dr. Jason Wingard. She was a mentor, an advisor, a guide, a mother figure, and a champion to so many people. People are leaders in the profession today because of her mentoring and her coaching.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. The values and mission are lived beautifully by the faculty, students, staff, and administration. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year the scholars in their respective Higher Education Administration/Student Affairs master’s programs will fully emerge in their academic programs along with professional development, mentoring, and a research study on graduate student identity and The Black Lives Matter movement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The city and area hold a large population of people from places such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, along with more recent refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, according to Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Video 4 (“Digging Deep”) illuminates struggles faced by some Black male college and graduate students in STEM fields and highlights the uplifting power of peer support and faculty mentoring. Finally, Video 5 (“Of Triumph and Perseverance”) offers an illustration of a Black male success story. Dr. Brian A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Now, with her sights set on attending a university, the question was which one, and how much money would they offer Patterson-Stephens so that she could attend? “I She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university. Many of those families still live here,” says Patterson-Stephens of the Black alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

Terri Gomez has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Gomez was honored in 2024 by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis for her leadership in empowering vulnerable communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. Most importantly, women in STEM often earn less than their male counterparts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

former professor of psychiatry and residency training director at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, for his longstanding work with an award in his name. University of Tennessee Health Science Center The Dr. Iverson Bell, Jr. Iverson Bell Jr., Dr. Iverson Bell Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

However, Odle’s team found that the faculty in these matches were more likely to be temporary staff or adjuncts, rather than tenured or tenure-track. Although contingent faculty may be equally good teachers as tenured faculty, their positions might limit them as mentors for students of color. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. He did not have mentors until he propelled himself back to college at age 32.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. Favors – will focus on fostering educational opportunities for students and faculty and innovating for social, economic, and racial justice. A&T) has launched its new Center of Excellence for Social Justice. The center – helmed by N.C. A&T Henry E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). If the university is not providing the resource, he will make a connection.” AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. Then, you see the successes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), is being honored with the Thurgood Marshall Award. His work continues to inspire our students and faculty, as well as the broader legal community.” Brittain, a professor in the David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Levon Esters Esters is currently the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and faculty affairs for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute and professor of agricultural sciences education. He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

The award highlights an individual who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to advancing women in higher education through initiatives enhancing leadership and career development, campus climate, and mentoring. The American Council on Education has announced its selection for the 2024 ACE Donna Shavlik Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education. I'm a first-generation student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Delaware State University Tenured: No Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Ph.D., Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

“My aim is to help dismantle injustices and build forward from the present structures of academe through recognition of what is true now,” says Price, an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she also serves as director of the Disability Studies Program. For the longest time, the U.S.

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