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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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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

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"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." were women, according to the report.

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. Broadening Black males’ participation in science and engineering extends our country’s ability to solve our — and the world’s — grand challenges.

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Leadership Potential

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dominique Turner Institution: Morgan State University Graduate Program: Higher Education Administration Education: B.S., Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Domestic enrollment declined in eight of 11 fields of study with the largest decreases in business (-13.9%), education (-5.9%), biological and agricultural sciences (-5.1%), and public administration and services (-5.1%),” the report noted.

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Fourth-Year Grad Student Sets Sights on Collegiate Leadership

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Frimpomaa Ampaw, chair of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. “I It was mentors and elders in the church that encouraged me to pursue higher education in the first place. I don’t even know if he sees it for himself, but I see it for him.”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” Dr. Tremayne O.