Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California; Dr. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University; and Dr. Sue Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Enjoy every stage of your academic career. Shortly after she arrived to Madison, Lopez got involved with Freedom, Inc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Attorney, politician, and advocate, Stacey Abrams aptly captures the essence of this transformation in her comments: “DEI is essential to building educational institutions that are welcoming, fair, and free from discrimination and hate. As Dr. Johnnetta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. Penn State , for instance, has events lined up for a number of its campuses. One of its events will be a Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. In his view, this isn’t just a matter of social justice or equity.

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University Business

JUNE 4, 2024

AAUP concedes CRT inspired grassroots social justice movements during the pandemic, but the organization also believes that contemporary academic framework was built on decades of scholarship, peer review and debate on race, gender, American history and social equality.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well. These days it is becoming more common for academic institutions to request diversity statements with job application materials.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 30, 2023

2023 Assessment Institute Faculty (Backrow: Paul Holliday-Millard, Heather Strine-Patterson, Melissa Brown, Kristyn Muller, Sarah LaFrance, Chris Patterson, Shaun Boren, and Jerri-Ann Berry Danso. Including the two co-chairs, there were a total 14 institute faculty.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The goal of LACRELA, which is coordinated by the University of South California (USC) Race and Equity Center, is to foster greater racial equity on our campus through assessment, education, and strategic DEI activities. This informed Goucher’s DEI strategic plan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Faculty are overwhelmingly democrats or left-leaning, by a ratio of 9 to 1. Staff are overwhelmingly left-leaning, often organized in unions that are overt allies of the Democratic Party, and pursue Title IX and DEI initiatives strongly favored by Democrats and vehemently opposed by Republicans.

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Ridgewater College

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In addition to these events, training and discussion sessions are being offered to faculty, staff, and students. This social justice series isn’t about minimizing our experiences in this country. Register for these events at ridgewater.edu/events/categories/dei/.

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Goucher DEI

MAY 22, 2024

This growing virtual resource hub offers students, faculty, and staff easy-to-access and easy-to-use resources for navigating various experiences. Maeba is excited to use this shift as an opportunity to build and expand social justice dialogue work at Goucher. In addition to her previous work, Rev.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has been bringing together crucial voices and perspectives to positively impact Black life in American society. In 2021, TMCF launched the CSJ to advance social justice for Black Americans. It is part of Bonner’s “Diverse Faculty in the Academy” series with Routledge.

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Goucher DEI

APRIL 29, 2022

“Goucher prides itself on our longstanding commitment to creating a diverse and welcoming campus environment and our dedication to promoting social justice and equity as fundamental components of our mission,” says Goucher College President Kent Devereaux.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

Open educational resources (OER)—learning materials, such as online textbooks, with licenses that allow them to be freely used, edited, and shared—are natural tools for achieving DEI goals. However, although OER and DEI are aligned, the people responsible for their implementation on campus often aren’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity. We also highlight things they’re doing in their own communities and on their campuses to promote social justice.” Invitational to promote social justice and equity. Supreme Court’s NCAA v.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners. His firm specializes in providing insights and resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Graduate Education. They’re going and attending the faculty visitations.

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Ridgewater College

JANUARY 19, 2022

Schwandt is now taking those priorities to a new level as the newly appointed director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Schwandt knows Ridgewater and its communities well, having served as an academic advisor and part-time diversity officer and Multicultural Club advisor for years, as well as recent interim DEI director.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Florida Atlantic University’s interim provost replied to concerns about the university collecting and providing to the state information that might be used to target Black and LGBTQ faculty members by saying, “We did not know what color—if they were purple, if they had sex with animals.”

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

Higher education’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is nearing a potential inflection point as two trends coalesce this summer: State bills stamping out DEI offices and two Supreme Court rulings are expected to strike down affirmative action in the coming days. “Don’t be led by fear,” advises Acosta.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dear Goucher community, With our fall semester now well underway, I thought I’d provide everyone with a brief update on the progress we’ve made this past year on the diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice goals we spelled out for ourselves in our strategic plan , Cultivating Global Changemakers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“We’re going to have a generation of students who have gaps in their understanding of racial experiences and will have more difficulty address[ing] the most pressing racial and social justice issues of our time.” Dr. Jeremy C. The measure nearly passed; it was added to the state budget but was eventually stripped out. “For

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Lets not be nave: the campaign against DEI is a campaign against ensuring greater access to education, economic and social opportunities for persons of color, women, LGBTQ persons and others who do not conform to the white male stereotype that the current anti-DEI movement considers intrinsically more competent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Joseph Lowery was my pastor for six years at Cascade United Methodist Church and helped us launch our social justice focus at Philander Smith College. The Texas A&M system ordered schools to remove the words and the acronym DEI from their websites and social media. I lived about a mile away from Andrew Young.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 10, 2025

Defunding Diversity and Equity By 2025, the administration took its culture war one step further: issuing a directive that effectively forced universities to shut down Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs or lose federal funding. Programs focused on racial justice, gender equity, and LGBTQ+ inclusion were defunded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. Edgar, a DEI and EEO consultant, trainer, and facilitator. “As We attempted to do something for Black faculty and administrators and so Black Issues was started. 1, after 35 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law. The world and the U.S. Dr. Stella M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the same time, scholars are working around the clock to stave off ongoing anti-DEI legislation that has already taken hold in states like Florida and Texas, where many politicians campaigned against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Affirmative action struck down The U.S. She holds a B.A. in government from Harvard.

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