Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

A federal judge in New Hampshire delivered a significant legal victory Thursday for proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in education by granting a preliminary injunction against the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2025

higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education. higher education.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the wake of a front assault on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is calling on colleges and universities not to give in to the pressure to abandon such initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. The real motivation behind anti-DEI efforts To understand the current backlash, we must first recognize its roots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Shaun Harper, university professor, provost professor of education, business and public policy, and the founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, was watching a livestream from the U.S. Prior to becoming a faculty member and administrator, Dr. Toby S. They guide the expectations of DEI practice.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When he was first asked to educate people on Islamophobia, DEI expert Dr. Amer F. So I started to make more of an effort to educate my colleagues, my field, [and] the general public on the ways in which Islamophobia was functioning and operating in our society and even my own personal experience related to that." Dr. Amer F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have come under attack, I wonder if higher education leaders shouldn’t begin to evolve the concept before policymakers strip away every tool we have to provide supports for students of color. In the context of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

A rising tide of anti-DEI sentiment is sweeping across the U.S., leaving chief diversity officers (CDOs) in higher education feeling embattled and uncertain about their futures. CDO positions are being eliminated, budgets slashed, and the very purpose of DEI work is being questioned. Dr. Harrison Davis, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It has been three years since the nation was shaken by the untimely murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, igniting a powerful movement to address racism in policing and other facets of society like education. Data indicate that 40 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 22 states, with seven already becoming law.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While higher education is a path to opportunity — many underrepresented, minoritized students face systemic barriers that make their graduate-level academic experience feel like an uphill challenge. As educators, our role in supporting marginalized students and helping them navigate the barriers created by the “system” is crucial.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Race and higher education scholars are voicing criticism, concern, and cynicism after the University of Florida ended many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, a move that the school cited it took to comply with a state law that was passed last year. Ahmed, vice provost for DEI at the University of Vermont. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

The GOP-dominated Ohio Senate has passed 21-10 a bill that would ban nearly all diversity and inclusion training requirements at the state’s public colleges and universities, prohibit faculty strikes, and bar public universities from taking stances on “controversial” topics, the Associated Press reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. To identify and cut DEI in higher education. Their goal?

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The states Board of Education is expected to ban campus offices, centers and policies dedicated to DEI ideologies. Some students and faculty are outraged. The Idaho State Board of Education is slated to vote today on a resolution cutting back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at public four-year colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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MARCH 22, 2023

After reading the article “Another Education Fight Over DEI Emerges…” on CNN.com, a daunting thought came over me. Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements. Moreso, it is regarded as an illegal practice in Texas.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It Griffin, professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Often missing is educators having compassion and understanding the root cause of students actions that shifted to them being disciplined to implementing restorative justice measures. In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Florida’s attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and so-called “woke” disciplines demonstrate a disregard for academic standards of governance and academic freedom, according to an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report. The report authors called on education advocates to fight back against such attacks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Dyonne Bergeron will become chief diversity officer (CDO) and vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion (DEI) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), effective Jul. I’m really excited and honored to have the opportunity to work with brilliant students, staff and faculty at UCI,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

George Mason University is pushing back against findings in a recent Heritage Foundation report that the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff is “bloated” and unnecessary. GMU had noticeably high “DEI bloat,” with at least 69 DEI personnel and 938 tenured or tenure-track faculty – a 7.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

That is not hyperbole, I wrote this text with several college degrees, including a doctorate, in my faculty office. Before DEI was a thing, Ms. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers. DEI leveled the playing field, so people in my situation could succeed. inclusion).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

The Texas Senate has approved a bill that would limit how state public universities can promote equitable access to higher education and foster campus diversity, The Texas Tribune reported. DEI programs have been shown to be exclusive, they have been shown to be ineffective and they have shown to be politically charged,” Creighton said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Age is not a factor that is often prioritized when it comes to DEI efforts, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Increases in life expectancy call for educational systems to change orientation toward age and the longer life course,” the report read. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It’s Up to Us; and We Must Work Together in New Ways Higher education and its mission to build a democratic, prosperous, and equitable society is under attack. The active marginalization of specific identities from education or the curriculum thwarts these objectives and the promises of higher education for all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There needs to be more, not fewer opportunities to assist students of color on campuses, according to a new report from The Education Trust. Campus racial climate is defined in the report as the “current attitudes, behaviors, and practices of faculty and students at a higher education institution toward students based on their race/ethnicity.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) condemned the University of Florida's elimination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion staff. They come at the expense of students, who will suffer without programs and people to support their educational journey."

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The University of Texas System’s board of regents has suspended all new policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and asked school leaders to report on their current DEI policies, citing that some practices have “strayed from the original intent,” The Texas Tribune reported. But Texas Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eli Capilouto is publicly opposed to bills proposed by state legislators to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, reported the Lexington Herald Leader. Mike Wilson of Bowling Green, which would block all DEI initiatives that promote so-called “discriminatory concepts.” He also objected to House Bill 9 from Rep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

The anti-DEI legislation has threatened more than institutional autonomy. Colleges and universities nationwide have established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices for years to increase faculty diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed at the post-secondary level and beyond.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

California community college professors are suing state officials, alleging that new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules put in place violated their First Amendment rights, The Hill reported. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” I’m a professor of chemistry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

As legislative sessions in many states head towards their conclusions, new attempts to exert control over higher education have continued to appear. Faculty in both states are distressed, and some are protesting. Gellman’s primary fear is that, without tenure, faculty would be limited in their work because of the fear of retribution.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). And 42% of untenured faculty reported censoring themselves, compared with 31% of tenured faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Over the last year, many consequential changes have been thrown at higher education – new legislation impacted DEI, artificial intelligence entered the classroom in a big way, and we’re still working through the residual effects of the pandemic. Our industry is indeed at an inflection point.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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