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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. Harvey Proactive, targeted zip code-focused recruitment combined with direct admissions. The shock waves that erupted following the U.S. Dr. William B. Concerned alumni groups.

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NYU pauses admissions in music ed, surprising students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: When New York University announced last month that it would suspend admissions to its undergraduate music education program, students were shocked. Besides, the department had changed the curriculum before without stopping admissions. Students wrote a letter to MPAP administrators asking for the decision to be reversed.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Supreme Court’s June ruling that race-conscious admissions practices are unconstitutional. Hall says she has received good assistance from SIUE. We can’t clone you, so we have to protect you,” they told her.

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Bridging Pathways for Military-Connected Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Given that less than 1% of Americans have served in the military, administrative leaders across all education sectors often have a learning curve. Cutting across political party lines, an overwhelming majority of Americans see veterans’ services as a priority (Schaeffer, 2021).

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HBCU Sustainability, Possible and Necessary

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From their inauspicious beginnings, HBCUs have successfully instilled into their students, faculty, and administrators the empowering message that they must “find a way or make one.” Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action, applications for admission to HBCUs are likely to increase at a substantial rate. Dr. William B.

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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For graduate students and professionals interested in an academic career, it is important to understand the differences between selective admission institutions, focused on research, publication, and the expansion of knowledge, and those that are open-access, focused on teaching and student learning.