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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. At Emory, he created over 100 internal and external initiatives, recruiting plans that targeted under-represented and international students. From there, Williams’s career took off.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Accolades for the Moving the Needle campaign are not hard to find among women whove ascended to the highest echelon of the academy since the ACE-led initiative began in 2009. Research by Dr. Gloria Oikelome, currently provost & vice president of academic affairs at Delaware Valley University, supports these concerns.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research.

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A State of Affairs, the Underrepresentation of Minority Community College Trustees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After undergraduate programming demonstrated improved retention and graduation rates, Watford was able to recruit students to Virginia Tech. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. After completing his Ph.D.

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How University of Arizona Global Campus’ Online Recruitment Ads Drain Its Finances (Jeremy Bauer-Wolf)

Higher Education Inquirer

And one higher ed consultancy, RNL, found that in 2022 , the median cost of recruiting an undergraduate student, minus personnel expenses, was only $1,652 for a four-year private college and $282 at a four-year public institution (though proponents of online education argue this is comparing apples to oranges).

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. 2009; Kirmayer et al., Research Findings. Conceptual Model Summarizing Research Findings.

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