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Women in Leadership: Empowering Change across Generations and Cultures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academic women leaders have increasingly assumed leadership roles that shape policies, curriculum development, and institutional culture. Roueche Community College Leadership Program, is a respected lecturer, historian, researcher, and professional genealogist. Dr. Carolyn Carter, a distinguished graduate of the John E.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our fourth pillar is research and innovation. How do we stand up things that we know in our gut, but maybe haven't been proven through research? We realized that we had the technology, capability, and infrastructure, but our institutions needed more curriculum development and engagement. But then we had a snag.

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

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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. Doctoral fellows will receive $4,000 stipends for dissertation research.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Interdisciplinary research will play a significant role in our efforts to achieve Carnegie 1 Research status.” The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Nancy Thomas WPSU The IDHE – a nonpartisan applied research center for student and institutional engagement in U.S. 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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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Four research questions were developed. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez. Dr. Lorelle L.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A&T Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, is working on developing an all-natural, antiviral disinfectant with promising results in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.