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Higher Ed Leaders Rally to Protect DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Photos by Tim Trumble In a powerful gathering of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professionals, university leaders from across the nation shared strategies for protecting critical DEI work on college campuses despite mounting opposition nationwide. We've been under attack around the federal government.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Recruitment is done through professional organizations and media.

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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

The federal data scaffolding may be crumbling but the need to tell the full story of higher educationclearly, credibly and comparablyremains intact. Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses. Do families log into the College Navigator every day?

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4 Then, too, there’s a broader issue: That many, perhaps most, students consume writing and media in new ways. Which university receives more taxpayer dollars from the federal government per student?” We can’t let this stand.

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The latest leaders criticizing Trump’s strategy on antisemitism

University Business

More from UB: Why Muslim voices face an untenable environment in higher ed “They want to attack campuses, they want to be seen as attacking campuses and they want the media to know they’re attacking campuses,” said Jon Fansmith, senior vice president of Government Relations at ACE, in a recent webinar.

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Office for Civil Rights Commences Title VI Investigations Against 45 Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kelly Benjamin, media and communications strategist for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), noted that AAUP was a plaintiff in a case for which the U.S. These attacks are grounded in a false narrative that DEI initiatives are about exclusion. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

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Washington Update: Dismantling the Department of Education and Redefining Oversight for Higher Ed: Changing Higher Ed podcast 252 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting

The Change Leader, Inc.

Office for Civil Rights (OCR) The Office for Civil Rights, a primary enforcement body for Title IX and DEI-related policies, experienced extensive layoffs. The Trump administration’s justification centers on eliminating what it perceives as excessive DEI infrastructure. However, civil rights functions extend well beyond DEI.