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Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Reflecting on my journey, I first experienced the power of Black research centers at Fisk University, where I arrived as a freshperson in 1999. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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Black Leadership Across Campuses) Summit, held on April 3, brought together university presidents, scholars, K-12 administrators, policymakers, and students for a candid three-hour discussion on systemic barriers and emerging threats to educational equity. The virtual B.L.A.C. We are preparing them to lead the transformation of those systems."

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MARCH 29, 2023

The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. He spoke to an audience of AUC students, administrators, and fellow physicians about what society can do differently in mental health. Dr. Walter M. and James L.

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MAY 9, 2023

I had no idea how to do research,” she said. Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I It’s not my strong suit.”

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JANUARY 30, 2025

For now, Heilig said that he will return to education policy scholarship and research, which he described as a transformative moment in politics, higher education, and society. Under his administration, the university strengthened its academic programs while focusing on equity and student success.

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MAY 1, 2025

The founders came here on an ox-pulled cart and developed all this, one administrator told me, pointing across the campus. As administrator after administrator told me, the traditional rankings weren't designed for schools like theirs. You dont think that was innovation looking forward and responding to a need?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Arguably, we're going to eventually see an impact on leadership in schools, because if we aren't creating enough teachers, we're also not going to be creating enough administrators,” said Pruitt in an interview with Diverse. “If Retention of teachers is increasing.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Princeton University In a concerning development for research institutions nationwide, Princeton University has become the most recent Ivy League school to have federal funding suspended amid what many academic leaders are describing as an unprecedented federal pressure campaign targeting elite universities.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell begins her term July 1, succeeding Dr. Kevin Kruger, who has held the post since 2012.

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APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

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APRIL 25, 2025

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Strayhorn isPresident/CEO and Senior Research Scientist of Do Good Work Consulting Group.

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APRIL 7, 2025

Encouragement from these mentors led her to pursue a masters degree in College Student Affairs Administration at the University of Georgia (UGA), which set the foundation for her career dedicated to student advocacy. Breedens research is personal. She also committed to ensuring that research leads to tangible policy changes.

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APRIL 24, 2025

colleges and universities has steadily declined over the past seven years, with both full-time and part-time positions showing significant reductions, according to new research from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S.

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MAY 10, 2023

Education leaders and researchers discussed the vast disparities in the number of educators of color and potential ways to help recruit them during a panel of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Equity Assistance Center-South’s (EAC-South) Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Education researchers have long identified transfer pathways as crucial for improving social mobility, especially for first-generation college students. But we cannot allow these pathways to become bridges to nowhere for the students who make the leap to transfer." in the past year, significant gaps remain.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it.

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JULY 21, 2023

Dartmouth College has launched the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (IBICL), a research center focused on the study of the Black diaspora. Culture and research are at the center of the institute. She describes it as the 'little engine that will,' and the result of that work is something she is proud of.

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APRIL 20, 2025

From the rise of anti-DEI rhetoric to the elimination of critical educator preparation grants and the erosion of support for education research at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the pattern is clear: dismantle the very systems designed to ensure equity and opportunity in education. The damage is already being felt.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By participating in this internship, students will enhance their research skills, gain pre-professional experience and expand their network of CSUSB students, staff and faculty,” says Morales. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As a Black woman, I love that so many of my kids look like me,” said Thompson, who adds that the parents, the school administrators and the other teachers have cultivated a family-like atmosphere at the school and have been a champion for her success. At 25, Thompson is already making a difference.

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MAY 5, 2025

The report, published by Education Northwest researchers Drs. While initial analysis showed students with strong financial knowledge had lower rates of basic needs insecurity, this relationship substantially weakened when researchers accounted for demographic characteristics, institutional context, and socioeconomic factors.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. She is currently the president of the University of New Orleans.

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MAY 8, 2025

Lavariega Monforti has authored over 50 scholarly publications and secured more than $10 million in grant funding to support student achievement and faculty research. In 2022, Lavariega Monforti participated in a Diverse sponsored webinar titled, "Survival Strategies for BIPOC Higher Ed Administrators."

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Researchers indicate that Queens is home to more in use languages - approximately 200than anywhere else in the world. Our institution is approximately one-third first generation immigrant, like my parents, and approximately one-third second generation immigrantthe children of newcomers. On our campus alone, at least 80 languages are spoken.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Additionally, researchers have shown that Black boys and young men are abysmally absent in advanced academics but overrepresented in special education, and in disciplinary infractions such as suspension and expulsion, thus, contributing to their opportunity gaps.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Elliott Researchers identified leaders at 22 MSI institutions representing five MSI designations to examine how Congress and the U.S. This report is intended to inform policymakers and legislators about legislative and administrative changes needed to prioritize the success of institutions that serve underserved students. Dr. Kayla C.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The foundation emphasizes the need to focus on both recent high school graduates and adult learners returning to education. Students' decisions to pursue and complete higher education are shaped by access to information, available resources, and the quality of their college experience.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Monica Parrish Trent, Chief Program and Network Officer at Achieving the Dream, an organization focused on creating student success and equity at community colleges, says that students with disabilities often face administrative hurdles in accessing accommodations, as well as social and sensory barriers in classrooms.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Scott, who currently serves as president of research and development at The Kraft Heinz Co., Before entering the corporate world, Scott built a foundation in academia as a biology professor at Norfolk State University and served in administrative roles at Boston College and Spelman College.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In using the word exile, I’m thinking of a specific experience: that of academics whose research and presence politicians would prefer to erase. This also resonates even in my own experience as an administrator; I’ve seen firsthand how programs are shuttered simply because they address so-called “divisive” issues according to politicians.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed. in Higher Education Administration Program at North Carolina Central University, an historically Black university in Durham, North Carolina.

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MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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MARCH 18, 2025

During our conversation, Dr. Clance expressed gratitude that my research focused on people of color, acknowledging her original study only included white women. Ive taken on administrative roles by choiceserving as a program director, department chair, and leader of a large-scale initiative.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D., with a desire to delve into research on the issues he’d seen firsthand. Otherwise, the research becomes irrelevant.” Dr. Victor B.

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APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. Our fourth pillar is research and innovation. How do we stand up things that we know in our gut, but maybe haven't been proven through research? How do we reimagine current operating models?

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JUNE 20, 2024

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. candidate’s research topic was “at the cutting edge of how we think about college students doing community-building work.” “We After she receives her Ph.D., After she receives her Ph.D.,

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