Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region. These two initiatives will be housed in the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. The fellows program will begin Fall 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO). million award marks Mellon’s second contribution to the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

“I can easily see Dom Turner being a college president one day,” said Dr. Frimpomaa Ampaw, chair of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. “I I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.” I was raised in the A.M.E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

ACE plans to present the award during its 2024 ACE Women’s Leadership Dinner on March 20 in Washington, DC. 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.

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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

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. She lives and breathes the mission and values of the Adventist church and this university.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

Johnson is currently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University. As the Gordon Chair, Odis will provide invaluable insights and leadership, guiding our efforts to enhance educational access and fairness. Kadriye Ercikan, vice president of research at ETS. “As Dr. Michael T.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

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

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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. Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. “For and graduate 19%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

This year’s American Council on Education (ACE) Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award honors Dr. Richard Helldobler, the president of William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. Helldobler holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Toledo as well as a master’s in speech and theatre and a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

Alma Littles has been appointed dean of the College of Medicine at Florida State University. I see teaching and mentoring as an essential part of being a physician,” said Littles. My own mentors were instrumental in helping me become a successful physician, and it is gratifying to pay it forward to the next generation.”

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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. Mentoring means impact.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hass, author of A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education , is described as a philosopher, teacher, and mentor. Marjorie Hass steers the helm as president of the Council of Independent Colleges. She is also a leader. She served as president of Rhodes College and Austin College and was provost at Muhlenberg College.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. And that's how I started to solidify my position to keep us moving forward."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

School: Indiana University Major: Finance and Business Analytics Year: Sophomore Natasha Kim plays midfielder for women’s soccer at Indiana University, where she majors in finance and business analytics. She is a member of the Hutton Honors College, is the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship, and is recognized as a Founders Scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

13 at the Women’s Leadership Dinner during ACE’s annual meeting in Washington, DC. I owe gratitude to my mentors and supporters, especially those who saw potential in me that I never imagined. Coley will be given the award Apr. Dr. Soraya M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. Strayhorn, a professor at Illinois State University and included student affairs leaders—all board members of the Dr. Melvin C.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. Department of Education. They don't even like horses. That was formative.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program. Previously, he was coordinator of the Agriculture Teacher Education Program in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture. “Dr.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed. My parents had high school degrees but didn't talk much about college.

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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.” We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

McBride, who recently stepped down from the presidency to accept a position as an endowed professor and senior advisor at Washington University in St. Across the years, Shalala has held numerous leadership positions, most recently as president of the University of Miami.

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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

JULY 7, 2023

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

The dean of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music was the first woman in the role and first African American dean at the university in general. Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Glenn Youngkin has announced an initiative to address learning loss through a tutoring partnership between the Urban League of Hampton Roads and Greater Richmond and four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The program will pay HBCU students to be tutors and mentors to high school and middle school students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

She had once told the former president of Metro State University of Denver, Dr. Stephen M. Jordan, that she would consider becoming a university president if she could lead CMC. When the job opened up, he nominated her for the role, and the rest is history. Don’t be shy to say that’s a dream job.” I love CMC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

School: University of Missouri Year: Graduate Student Major: Hospitality Management As the NFL Draft approached this spring, football pundits noted not only Darius Robinson’s athletic prowess, but his versatility and ability to play multiple positions. Robinson himself said he’s open to doing whatever a team needs from him.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is paramount in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as it can play a critical role in preserving these institutions' legacy, values, and unique contributions. Succession planning plays a vital role in the long-term success and stability of the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Barnes previously served the GCAC on a part-time basis while working as athletic director of Dillard University. Long known for mentoring young women of color who aspire to careers in college sports, Barnes also consults with collegiate athletics programs on strategic planning, leadership training, and team building.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University-Newark has been named in honor of the first Black woman in New Jersey to hold statewide office, Lt. Oliver Leadership Scholarship as part of the center's Public Service Leadership Program at Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences–Newark.

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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. students in STEM.

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