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

Diverse: Issues in 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. Applications from under-represented students increased by 10% during his first academic year. it’s not quick.”

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How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Given that 2024 is also the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. 12 event will be free to the public and recorded for public viewing online as well.

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HBCUs: Catalysts for Economic Empowerment and Community Growth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education & Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Esters is the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice President of Graduate Education at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Levon T.

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Can Canadian Graduate Education Be Redesigned Around Jobs?

Higher Education Whisperer

In "Arts graduate education in Canada should be redesigned around students’ and society’s needs" Malloy, Young, and Berdahl (2024) suggest focusing on public good. As it happens a decade ago I enrolled in a Canadian social science graduate program which does what the authors call for.The authors make the point that

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the CAMP projects for the 2024-25 academic year is getting at least half of the participants selected for internships for their sophomore year. Project upGRADS, which is funded by a federal grant, aims to improve access to and success in graduate education. The summer 2024 META had almost 200 participants.

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Carnegie Mellon Launches $150M STEM Diversity Initiative

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The first student cohort will enroll in fall 2024, with an expected 86 fellows to be added each year.

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2024 Path of Professorship builds up women in academia

CAPD

On November 18-19, 2023 CAPD and the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) successfully organized the 18 th annual Path of Professorship program. Path of Professorship is a 2-day workshop for women interested in pursuing academic careers. In attendance were 38 PhD students and 30 Postdoctoral fellows.