Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts were at the center of another entry. The University of Oregon (UO) drew FIRE’s ire due to its rubric for evaluating DEI statements from prospective faculty and faculty seeking promotion or tenure. UO ignored FIRE’s protestations and maintained the rubric.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 29, 2023

Francis Key Statement: DEI: Creating a Classroom Culture Keywords: Diversity, Instructional Practices, Classroom Culture Introduction Inclusive classrooms and equitable instructional practices have been a subject of discussion for several years, particularly within higher learning institutions. Karen Blaha , University of St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students. He also hosts an annual DEI forum.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In While Coe has had previous diversity officers, Jaamal operates in an expanded capacity, which is what students, faculty, and staff requested. Coe College President David T. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Bronx is home to over one million people, 56% of whom are Latinx, according to 2020 U.S. 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. are white and only 21% are faculty of color.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs. From there, she began to work with representatives — faculty and staff — from both two-year and four-year institutions. This model has learning objectives and content that were agreed upon by faculty and staff across the state,” says Offutt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Johnson, who led OSU since 2020 and departed under somewhat mysterious circumstances. He will also face pressure from the Ohio state legislature, which last year nearly passed a bill that would have banned DEI training and programming and restricted the teaching of so-called “divisive concepts” about race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. From 2010 to 2020, AAP had an exchange program with Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that targeted the exchange of low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students. “The California legislature put some caveats.

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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. Dr. Barbara J. Additionally, institutions should be attentive to the well-being of all employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The program got approval last spring. “In Massasoit officials agree.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. She also championed diversity and inclusion in faculty and staff hiring and promotion practices. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

A 2020 study examining 18 years of data from Texas’s top 10% plan found little to no equity-producing effects of the plan at state flagship schools. Admissions preferences are likely to favor the privileged, including advantages for legacies, athletes, the children of donors, and the children of faculty and staff.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He said objecting to DEI as a business principle struck him as an ideological attack, adding that demographics are shifting across the U.S.—especially —especially in California—which puts Whittier ahead of the curve in focusing on DEI. We’re very proud of that. What Is The State of Whittier College?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent. The hold of the power structures in higher ed is very strong.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent. The hold of the power structures in higher ed is very strong.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the fall of 2020, Goucher College became a founding member of the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance (LACRELA), a partnership of 72 colleges nationwide. Goucher has committed to participating in a three-year-long initiative with LACRELA, and Goucher students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to take part.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

These efforts became part of the larger antiracism moment that emerged in 2020 from the widespread response to the death of George Floyd and rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. The DEI lineage stands out from the others in that it didn’t introduce new success metrics into the conversation.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

in 2020, and 35.3% Supreme Court’s decision did not ban DEI programs, although some states have enacted those measures themselves. The new organization plans to offer official credentials, teaching law school faculty, staff, and administration best practices for DEI. in 2021, [and] 36.2% in 2019,” says Susan L.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

And that is part of our larger DEI conversation as well. They've been polling students since fall of 2020. This is gonna be hard for a lot of campus, stakeholder, staff, faculty, really everybody to work on and it's. We worry about academic issues, we worry about financial issues, and we worry about issues and belongingness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2020, after the horrific murder of George Floyd, the world responded with declarations condemning racial violence and oppressive systems. Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). McNair et al.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

She was one of three DEI employees who have resigned from the institution over the past 18 months due to what they described as a lack of institutional support for their work, according to a December article in the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.

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University Business

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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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Spreading misinformation The specter of the 2024 presidential election and the accompanying Republican primary contest will add fuel to the fire, according to Dr. Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California (USC) and creator of the National DEI Defense Fund. Dr. Jeremy C.

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

We are seeing a wave of racist attacks on teaching Black history, on voting rights, DEI programs, and affirmative action in education. We must continue to call on local and national leaders, HBCU alumni, students, faculty, staff, and community members to join us in this fight to hold elected officials accountable.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Nathan Grove, a chemistry professor at UNC Wilmington and the chair of the campus’s Faculty Senate, said that vote served as a wake-up call for him and his colleagues. ” 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. 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. Biden Administration U.S.

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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. Dr. Everrett A.

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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

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. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law. The world and the U.S. Dr. Stella M.

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