Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community. 2024 marks the 24th year that Wayne State has done an MLK tribute, born from the vision of former senior vice president and King’s Morehouse College classmate, the late Arthur L. Memorial Banquet on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. Learn how to say no as a junior faculty member but say it with poise and some grace. I love my students. I love my teaching.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1 A framework was built.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 30, 2023

2023 Assessment Institute Faculty (Backrow: Paul Holliday-Millard, Heather Strine-Patterson, Melissa Brown, Kristyn Muller, Sarah LaFrance, Chris Patterson, Shaun Boren, and Jerri-Ann Berry Danso. Including the two co-chairs, there were a total 14 institute faculty.

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Goucher DEI

MAY 22, 2024

This growing virtual resource hub offers students, faculty, and staff easy-to-access and easy-to-use resources for navigating various experiences. The DEIJ Campus Coordinating Committee is a campus-wide committee of faculty, staff, and students who work year-round to support and coordinate equity and inclusion efforts across the campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California; Dr. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University; and Dr. Sue Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Enjoy every stage of your academic career. In recent years, Lopez has turned her activism and focus inward.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

Anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed in states like Texas and Florida is tied to a national trend of trying to make LGBTQ+ people and people of color invisible and more easily discriminated against, says Imani Rupert-Gordon, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In Texas, Senate Bill 17 took effect on Jan.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The leadership’s conservative approach axed its DEI office and has flooded the school with intercollegiate athletics, displacing legacy upperclassmen. Faculty trustee Amy Reid reported that 40% of its faculty have left this year. New College cannot escape a litany of controversy since the newly formed leadership took over.

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Goucher DEI

MARCH 28, 2024

Current Exhibit and Public Programs Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) is currently hosting an exhibit through June 2024 that highlights the process of creating the land acknowledgement statement. Please visit The Hallowed Ground Project webpage for additional information.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

Faculty described feeling similarly unsure of curriculum development, both in terms of what prior knowledge students might have and what could be considered the “core” topics of higher education assessment. For a more detailed review of our methods, please see the report published in March 2024.) & Roberts, D. Schuh, J.H.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In April 2024, researchers Richard R. While the full make-up of the entering class of 2024 has yet to be decided, Krinsky and others agree that institutions need to take lessons now from those who already confronted statewide affirmative action bans. But, Krinsky adds, the ban is likely to slow the progress that’s been made.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Strayhorn, Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty , is being released in mid-July. It is part of Bonner’s “Diverse Faculty in the Academy” series with Routledge. CSJ now has the first run of the 2024 data. Faculty have to be developed based upon the context that they’re in.”

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Goucher DEI

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Classes are taught by faculty from Goucher and other local colleges and universities. Courses Offered in GPEP Currently, GPEP offers around 30-35 courses in the prisons each year, which are selected from Goucher College’s course catalog: the same catalog offered on Goucher’s main campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Stephen John Quaye, Ohio State University; Dr. Darris Means, University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Cynthia Dillard, Seattle University; and Dr. Christa Porter, Kent State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Do the work that inspires you. Do the work that makes you smile, brings you joy. Matters of stigma also surface.

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

While the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill stepped down shortly after the hearing, over 700 faculty at Harvard rallied around Gay, urging the administration to back her. ” However, Christopher Rufo, one of the most prominent critics of Critical Race Theory and DEI initiatives and a close ally of Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

So I have decided King Day 2024 is cancelled. But the most obvious reason that King Day is cancelled on campus for 2024 is because of the tremendous cowardice that is running rampant in higher education. The Texas A&M system ordered schools to remove the words and the acronym DEI from their websites and social media.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Its 2024 report reflecting post-pandemic era initiatives only mustered 60 responses. lead this movement, but it also quickly scaled up DEI initiatives to welcome and support first-generation and minority-background students. higher education has seen several statewide efforts to ban DEI initiatives succeed. Not only did the U.S.

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University Business

JUNE 4, 2024

Opponents’ tactics soon evolved, targeting institutional DEI initiatives and LGBTQ+ visibility. Faculty tenure, academic freedom and university governance structures have also been targeted “to kick the legs out … so that the next time the state moves to censor … no one is in a position to push back.”

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image: When Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, announced plans last week to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the state, he was joined on stage by political activist Chris Rufo, who has made a career out of questioning the purpose of DEI programs. “Gov. Shapiro himself has also drawn controversy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In September, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos demanded that UW cut DEI spending by $32 million, saying that he would not allocate funding for already-approved UW employee pay raises until the school complied. Most UW employees will now see pay raises of 4% in 2023 and 2% in 2024.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Critics consider the bill an attack on higher education related to broader culture war issues—ahead of a potential DeSantis presidential run in 2024—rather than a serious piece of legislation aimed at fixing current issues or improving higher education. Some with close ties to DeSantis are celebrating the move.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

He proposed defunding DEI efforts and restricting the use of DEI statements in hiring practices, giving boards and presidents the power to review tenure at any time, and requiring that state research universities spend $50 million annually on research related to STEM and business initiatives. (The

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

26 December · Episode 187 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions 55 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024. Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Others, however, have been more aligned across political lines, such as the push to dismantle DEI. Tahesha Way signed a law last month requiring annual training for faculty and staff to spot student signs of depression. In Texas, SB 17 restricts DEI programs altogether. Disbanding DEI implicates schools’ LGBTQ centers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process. Other issues in the news will include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). With the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the same time, scholars are working around the clock to stave off ongoing anti-DEI legislation that has already taken hold in states like Florida and Texas, where many politicians campaigned against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Affirmative action struck down The U.S. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Image: Though the 2024 presidential election is still more than 600 days away, a handful of well-known Republicans have already entered the primary race. Likewise, when DeSantis took aim at DEI efforts in Florida, Abbott did the same, issuing a memo to state institutions warning that using DEI policies in hiring is an illegal practice.

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