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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.

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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. As we face ongoing challenges, it is time for higher education to recognize the strength and impact of community colleges.

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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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Unleashing Economic Opportunity: Honoring the Legacy of the March on Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education institutions have the power to be catalysts for socioeconomic mobility and drivers of economic policy that creates opportunities for underserved communities. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dr. Marcus A. Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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AUCC to Launch Institute to Support Minority Engineers with $1.5 Million Investment from A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"The business of the Atlanta University Center is to work collaboratively with the member institutions and our surrounding community, as well as provide thought leadership within the higher education ecosystem, particularly as it relates to the HBCU subsystem of higher education,” Hodge said.

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What is Curriculum Development? Understanding the Fundamentals

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What is Curriculum Development? Understanding the Fundamentals editor Tue, 06/13/2023 - 00:09 Curriculum development is critical in structuring educational programs and ensuring better learning outcomes. What is Curriculum Development?