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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Concerned alumni groups. There has never been a more important and necessary time for concerned alumni of color of all colleges and universities to provide input and advice to university administrators, whether they appreciate it or not, and to monitor the effectiveness of institutional efforts to enroll and support students of color.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are also some significant alumni donors supportive of various initiatives, including a single donor who has provided $50 million during Fox’s presidency. Non-alumni have been invited to join the board of trustees, broadening the university’s sphere of influence. Faculty should be committed to teaching the diverse student body.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.” “Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. What followed were demands from Coe community members, including Coe's Black alumni.

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A Visionary Urban Planner

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, at UVA’s architecture school, many cases of important, timely work are being done, Hutson says, adding that many of the school’s faculty, students, and alumni are engaged in work surrounding climate resilience and justice, such as natural coastal infrastructures, engagement with communities impacted by climate change, and biomaterials.