Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. Department of Education, 16 states have underfunded their HBCUs by more than $12 billion between 1987 and 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Bronx is home to over one million people, 56% of whom are Latinx, according to 2020 U.S. The Bronx Dr. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. Census data. asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Attorney, politician, and advocate, Stacey Abrams aptly captures the essence of this transformation in her comments: “DEI is essential to building educational institutions that are welcoming, fair, and free from discrimination and hate.

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JUNE 4, 2024

The nonprofit membership organization with over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations believes that much of the uproar against higher education since 2020 derives from a small and coordinated effort by wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Among the top 200 global universities identified by THE in 2024, 51 are now run by women, marking a steady incline over the past five years: 43 in 2022 , 41 in 2021, 39 in 2020 and 34 in 2019 and 2018. More from UB: Which college, university leaders are speaking out against anti-DEI efforts? Three were tied for 199th place.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“I was made aware of some security concerns that were being prompted by folks who have been attacking the college, attacking the administration, attacking the board, and out of an abundance of caution, I made the decision to make the board meeting virtual,” Santana said. We’re very proud of that.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

” Art Pope, a member of the Board of Governors since 2020 and a prolific Republican donor , denied that the compelled speech vote was motivated by politics. For one, it is a far purpler state, with a Democratic governor and, as of 2020, more registered Democrats than Republicans on its voter rolls. Yes, we are.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Blogs The 6 most in-demand topics for district leaders last year AskEAB's 6 most popular research requests in 2022-2023 Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass hundreds of questions from district leaders and school administrators to our AskEAB team. Diversity, equity, and inclusion: 6% of requests DEI best practice: 40% Closing gaps (e.g.,

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Specifically, he oversaw increased diversity among his faculty and staff and created a new cabinet position overseeing DEI and belonging. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.) Since 2020, the student population has grown 25 percent. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity and inclusion, and coordinator of the new DEI certificate program at Muhlenberg College. Through conversations with community partners, Vick said Muhlenberg College administration came to realize they could help.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Claims that DEI IS DEAD are ringing out loudly from the current administration, but isnt there a way to make sure valuable equity-minded practices actually survive? In 2020 , the unemployment rate for workers with a bachelors degree was 5.5 percent, while it was 9 percent for those with a high school diploma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

After the death of George Floyd in 2020, Dr. Philomena V. Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values.

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JULY 15, 2024

in 2020, and 35.3% While some steps have been taken to lighten the load of student debt, particularly by the Biden administration, Cruz criticizes the communication behind these changes. Supreme Court’s decision did not ban DEI programs, although some states have enacted those measures themselves. in 2021, [and] 36.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Aaron Goodson “It’s really important that we see Black women in this position of leadership as head coaches in our sport,” says Smith, who is co-chair of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. “In In my tournament, you’re always going to see four Black females leading their teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

And that harmful and tangible racism continues today, as the Biden administration has calculated that historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have been cheated out of $12.6 We are seeing a wave of racist attacks on teaching Black history, on voting rights, DEI programs, and affirmative action in education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

According to a 2022 federal report , during the 2020-21 school year, more than 33% of U.S. But it does indicate a desire to have people with different ideas in the administration.” Alvin Tillery, Jr., director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern University.

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University Business

MAY 5, 2025

Marty Pollio will begin his foray in postsecondary administration following his seven years as superintendent of Kentucky’s largest school district and 30 total years in the system. Gustavus Adolphus College has found its next president, John Volin, the current provost at the University of Maine since 2020.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Indeed, the figure has declined by 15 percent since 2020. Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4 Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads? “There’s a lot of graduate education and a lot of research, and that’s where a lot of the staff and administrators are.” Former U.S.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Attrition was seen as driven by student inaction, and advisors began launching focused outreach campaigns targeted at unregistered students with the goal of removing their administrative and financial barriers and securing registration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

GOP leaders launched swift attacks on Harris, labeling her as a “DEI” candidate. Some of Biden’s policies for higher education were more popular than others, so Greer added that Harris will have to thread the needle carefully when sharing the Biden administration successes while highlighting her own policies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was extrajudicially murdered. Dr. Tryan L.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Arguably the most prominent of the trustees is Rufo, who gained national attention for his campaign against the obscure academic concept of critical race theory, often conflating it with diversity, equity and inclusion programs and fueling a conservative backlash against DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Yet leading up to the federal ruling, a string of state legislative actions — each seeking to hobble or even decimate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities and programming on university campuses — provides a telling story of a divided national mindset. DEI and the culture of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. Several states have already dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, and other states anticipate something similar coming their way.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 10, 2025

When the Trump administration announced in 2019 that it would protect free speech on college campuses, many students expected more room for open dialogue and critical debate. In 2020, the administration tried to force all international students out of the U.S. International students question their safety and place in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Biden Administration U.S. The Biden-Harris administration anticipated that the debt forgiveness would impact 95% of student loan borrowers, or about 43 million people. Edgar, a DEI and EEO consultant, trainer, and facilitator. “As We attempted to do something for Black faculty and administrators and so Black Issues was started.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. Experts agree that those most likely to take the brunt of administrative changes will be the poor and impoverished. Dr. Stella M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, former executive director for the DEI and Belonging office and Title IX coordinator at Richland Community College. Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, executive director for the DEI and Belonging office and Title IX coordinator at Richland Community College in Decatur, Illinois, was let go from her non-federal position.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Schools are subject to civil rights investigations for carrying out various DEI initiatives, including those that aim to enroll more students of color or hire a racially diverse teaching staff, a Dear Colleague letter from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights suggests. Legal guidance will also follow “in due course.”

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2025

The Trump administration’s goal is to eliminate “red tape” that holds up education funding and give more financial control to states, McMahon said in a Fox News interview Tuesday night. The administration has gone further, according to ProPublica. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

His administration has already eliminated the agency’s DEI initiatives, moved to expand school choice and root out so-called “indoctrination” in K12 instruction. The agency also wiped out Title IX updates made by the Biden administration, reverting to rules imposed during the first Trump administration.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that diversity can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do. In this instance, Sharptons theatrics were inspired by the corporations which discontinued their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. Title IX reverts to 2020 regulations The U.S. (LATEST UPDATE: Feb.

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