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Book Review: The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact is an excellent book that answers the question, what does it take to succeed as a Black professional in higher education leadership? The main strength of The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education lies in its format as an edited book.

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Dr. Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude, The College of New Jersey

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She researches race, gender, and informal economies in the Anglophone Caribbean. Brown-Glaude is the former chair of the Department of African American Studies, where she spearheaded the development of its major.

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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. Connecticut NAACP President Scot X.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson’s journey to Michigan State began — in earnest — some two decades earlier, when the young Jackson embarked on an ambitious research agenda of studying education deans as a doctoral student at Iowa State University. I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes.

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Dr. Derrick Brooms Appointed Executive Director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Derrick Brooms will become executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College, effective Aug. Dr. Derrick Brooms Brooms is currently associate department head of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and sociology at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby, a prominent educational psychologist and racial equity expert who is on the faculty at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been named the next executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center. Her research has been cited in more than 9,000 published studies. She will replace Dr. Shaun R.

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Father of Black Studies, Dr. Nathan Hare, Dead at 91

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He is credited with coining the term "ethnic studies" to replace "minority studies" and was a productive researcher and scholar, publishing a number of books with his late wife, Dr. Julia Hare. Ten years earlier, he founded The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research.