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An Open Letter to HBCU Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thanks to the active engagement and voter turnout of college students of all races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes, Barack Hussien Obama, was elected America’s first Black president of the United States of America in 2008 and reelected for a second term in 2012. When we vote, we honor those lives and carry on this quest.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It set the stage for the modern educational environment, where digital and traditional methods coexist, and where the lessons from this era continue to inform how we approach teaching and learning in an increasingly connected world.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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Molly Broad, Who Had a Career Full of Higher Ed Firsts, Dies

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Molly Corbett Broad, who became the first woman to lead the American Council on Education after breaking a similar glass ceiling as president of the University of North Carolina system, died Monday, her family announced. She was 81. In nine years at the organization’s helm, she overhauled ACE’s approach to the G.E.D.,

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In education, we are really good at focusing on what and how and when, at solving the problems before us. In 2008, through some fabulous colleagues, I discovered TED Talks, which led me to leadership guru Simon Sinek. Why am I in education? in higher education administration at Montana State University.

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A Summer of Love: HBCUs and the Culture of Caring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the few weeks since announcing her candidacy for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has ignited a level of hope and optimism not observed within the American electorate since Barack Obama’s run for president in 2008. A culture that lifts people up, instead of knocking them down, is what will lead the U.S.

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

Reflecting on the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Udacity and Coursera around 2011-2012, there was initial hype about their potential to fundamentally transform higher education. And they’ve gotten higher education administrators to take online seriously.