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Women in Leadership: Empowering Change across Generations and Cultures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She exemplifies the empathy and innovation that women bring to leadership in higher education. Academic women leaders have increasingly assumed leadership roles that shape policies, curriculum development, and institutional culture. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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Institute for Democracy and Higher Education Transfers from Tufts University to AAC&U

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) has moved from Tufts University to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). democracy – will now be an AAC&U presidential initiative and focus on threats to democracy through research, convenings, and faculty and curriculum development.

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Investment in Math Education is Needed to Fuel the STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most strategic investments that can be made when it comes to having a well-prepared workforce for the economy of the future is in mathematics education. As STEM graduates enter the workforce, they help to stimulate job creation, attract businesses, and foster a dynamic environment conducive to growth and development.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's about equipping institutions with the tools to drive change on their campuses, fostering cross-campus collaboration, and ensuring that HBCUs are setting an agenda for higher education innovation, not just responding to it. When we set out to build that digital learning network, we weren't just thinking about online education.

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CUNY Graduate Center Selects 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Doctoral and Faculty Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty fellows get $2,000 stipends for research and curriculum development projects. The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY.

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Young to Head-up FAMU Center for African and African American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming. MacArthur Foundation granted a total $550,000 to support the center; each gifted FAMU $275,000.

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If You Think You’re Too Small to Make a Difference, You Haven’t Spent the Night with a Mosquito

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges serve nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States, and the demographic breakdown reveals how we reach communities often left on the margins of traditional higher education. These institutions are often gateways to upward mobility, offering access to quality education at a fraction of the cost of universities.

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