Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released a new trustee guide intended to help higher education leadership proactively prepare for potential campus disruptions, such as those linked to antiwar protests last spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Many of those families still live here,” says Patterson-Stephens of the Black alumni. Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. Their children still go to this institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2024

First-generation students are less likely than students with college-educated parents to have faculty mentors. Research has found that a faculty mentor who encourages a student’s goals and dreams is the single most crucial factor for personal and professional success. Mentors come in many forms.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Schupf Art Center last month, an $18 million project developed in partnership with Waterville Creates , a nonprofit organization that promotes accessible arts and cultural programs, according to a news release from the college. “There’s much more of a flow of students and faculty coming through Waterville,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and, in 2016, co-founded Opportunity Institute with Ann OLeary, who served as chief of staff to California Gov.

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