Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Kelley’s notion of the “ Freedom Dream ,” an invitation to imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. Community colleges will have funding to support endowed chair positions for faculty. During the presentation, Garcia talked about Dr. Robin D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

The government affairs department of Equality Texas has been surveying students and faculty at the Texas institutions impacted by SB 17 to gauge how it has been implemented. They also note that LGBTQ faculty and staff can make a point of being mentors and role models as well as cultivating a sense of belonging for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

John’s University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “You belong here.” Alexander says she wants to “ensure the magnitude and scope of anti-CRT campaigns does not continue to spread and frustrate students’ ability to gain access to the tools they need to address the most pressing social justice and racial issues of our time.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Now that we’re starting to get the results, we’re able to tell our social justice story.”

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college maintains its commitment to principles such as integrity, peace, social justice, and community engagement, which shape both its academic and extracurricular life. Dr. Paul Sniegowski, a biologist and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as President since August 2024.

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Social Justice Alumni Engineering Higher Education 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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University Business

JUNE 4, 2024

AAUP concedes CRT inspired grassroots social justice movements during the pandemic, but the organization also believes that contemporary academic framework was built on decades of scholarship, peer review and debate on race, gender, American history and social equality.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has been bringing together crucial voices and perspectives to positively impact Black life in American society. In 2021, TMCF launched the CSJ to advance social justice for Black Americans. It is part of Bonner’s “Diverse Faculty in the Academy” series with Routledge.

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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. Maeba is excited to use this shift as an opportunity to build and expand social justice dialogue work at Goucher. In addition to her previous work, Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

To launch a new medical school years in the making took mobilizing a village of support that included faculty and staff. adds Sealey, who projects that in 2024 the college will open with an inaugural class of 75 or more students. Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) will follow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“We’re going to have a generation of students who have gaps in their understanding of racial experiences and will have more difficulty address[ing] the most pressing racial and social justice issues of our time.” Initially,] there was this universal scoff among folks who are committed to racial and social justice.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 7, 2025

The university boasts an 8:1 student-faculty ratio and an average class size of 15. Signature programs include the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability, combining classroom learning with community engagement on social justice issues. As of 2024, W&Ls endowment is nearly $2.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Joseph Lowery was my pastor for six years at Cascade United Methodist Church and helped us launch our social justice focus at Philander Smith College. So I have decided King Day 2024 is cancelled. Faculty in several Southern states are making the same decisions. I lived about a mile away from Andrew Young.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2024

as they rile up voters in the 2024 election cycle. When the LAPD did step in, officers shot unarmed peace protesters and faculty in the chest, face, arms and legs with “less than lethal” munitions. More than 3,100 were arrested at Gaza protests on college campuses from April to June 2024. Fear sells. foreign policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But, when higher education experts were asked to reflect on 2024, each described a year loaded with exceptional pressure and stress. For us in Texas, 2024 was getting ready for the implementation of SB17 and that completely took over our lives,” says Flores, an expert on affirmative action. “We The world and the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

30, 2024, so that borrowers who did not begin repayment by October did not suffer from late fees or loans going into default, though interest will accrue. Faculty strikes back Employee dissatisfaction with parts of the job, such as pay and working conditions, was prominent this year. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept.

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Veteran and Military Services DEI Grants and Contracts Admissions 318