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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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Brian McKenzie, director of research at CGS and lead author of the report. "We We track graduate enrollments at both the master's, certificate, and doctoral level for major institutions in the U.S. Though the number of graduate school applications increased by 3.9%. fall at Doctoral or Professional Universities (D/PU).

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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. Existing research shows that there are myriad storms that serve as barriers to Black males developing or maintaining interest in STEM. Dr. Brian A.

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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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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.” After completing his Ph.D.

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Fourth-Year Grad Student Sets Sights on Collegiate Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reflecting on my own journey during this era, from my undergraduate studies at Alabama A&M University to my graduate education at Virginia State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I experienced firsthand the evolving landscape of higher education. As Dr. John C.