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Fielding Graduate University Mourns Educational Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fielding Graduate University Taylor was a national leader on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, particularly those relating to access and equity, preparing the next generation of researchers and faculty members in the nation’s colleges and universities.

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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. Dr. Dereck J.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” To address that, there are now approximately 40 graduate ambassadors who will speak to student groups about their journeys. Dr. Tremayne O.