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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Ninth Cohort of ELEVATE Fellows Announced

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ELEVATE fellows develop skills through hands-on workshops on academic writing, grant writing, teaching, mentoring, and achieving tenure. ELEVATE supports ongoing learning, training, and networking of early career MSI faculty by providing workshops, opportunities to network with peers, and a platform for collaboration.

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, the amount of Title V funding—federal dollars granted to expand opportunities for Hispanic students—has not kept pace, resulting in increased competition for the money. One of the main obstacles that schools have in applying for Title V grants is decentralized structures for doing so, the briefing found. Dr. Deborah A.

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Supporting research in a world of finite resources

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Considering that it would be fiscally unrealistic to reduce all faculty on the tenure track to a much lower teaching load across the board, faculty representatives had an idea. Acknowledgements C.T. would like to thank his capstone partner, Jordan Johnson (University of Alabama) for valuable feedback and discussions during the project.

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We Are Not the Same

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the American Council on Education, there are 11 HBCUs designated as Research 2 institutions, signifying their commitment to research, grant writing, and publications. HBCUs encompass public and private institutions with distinct characteristics, strengths, and challenges.