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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Forging strategic partnerships Williams’s ability to connect HBCU students to graduate programs caught the attention of Emory University, where he would be recruited in 2014 as the director of Diversity, Community and Recruitment. it’s not quick.”

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Fielding Graduate University Mourns Educational Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university noted contributions to be made in memory Taylor’s memory may be made to the Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education at Fielding. 10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California. He was the past president of the Consortium of Social Science Association and the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"We track graduate enrollments at both the master's, certificate, and doctoral level for major institutions in the U.S. We do that to keep up with the output and production of people for the knowledge economy essentially, well-trained, graduate education-trained people." In 2020, all of the higher education sector was affected.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When you peek around the corner like that, you have to peek as things change — as society and the economy change, as trends in higher education change. “I The campus closed in March 2020, but in June 2020 the new doctoral cohorts in physical and occupational therapy were due to arrive.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program , established in 1986 and as necessary today as ever, we mentor students in submission , accepting the ways higher education operates instead of demanding and creating a genuinely inclusive community. In programs such as the Ronald E. What if we decided we had had enough of doing this?