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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it.

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Access Agreement Will Allow Independent Testing at Poe Hall

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since then, hundreds of former and current students, teachers, staff, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall have reached out to lawyers and local news agencies across the city of Raleigh to share that they are sick, many with cancer. Independent testing is slated to begin the week of July 29 and last for one week. Bryan Brice, Jr.,

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A Snapshot in Time: The Cancer Cluster at NC State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brice says he has fielded calls from over 250 people, including former students, staff, faculty, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall and have since become sick with cancers or other illnesses. Masier spent hours within Poe Hall as a graduate student and assistant between 2009 and 2013. It could save your life.”

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

2009; Kirmayer et al., student leaders, administrative leaders). Increasing representation among underrepresented groups should be identified as a priority in faculty, staff, and senior administration recruitment and hiring processes. These community resilience factors include: Community connection and support (Wexler et al.,

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

first female on the biology faculty NOTABLE ALUMNI of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Brunswick, ME William Cohen, Class of 1962, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration 1997-2001 NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, Lewisburg, PA Kenneth Langone, the CEO of Home Depot NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUTLER UNIVERSITY, Indianapolis, IN Arthur C.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

The Scholarly Teacher

Linguistic homogeneity may tacitly or overtly reify a deficit model of education — that students lack something and educators fill that void by providing “correct” alternatives to language usage (Bruton & Robles-Piña, 2009; Freire, 2000; Pineda, 2022). Let's face it: Language issues and the writing program administrator.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University and Why It Matters Gleason, Philip. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Eaton, Charlie. University of Chicago Press. Eisenmann, Linda. Johns Hopkins U. Espenshade, T.,