Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Johnson My alma mater, the University of Florida, recently eliminated its DEI positions and offices. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. My heart aches for the Gator Nation, the Lone Star State, and students across the U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

All signage had been removed from the once-bustling Black Student Union office. The post Alabama’s anti-DEI law kicks in: College offices close, websites scrubbed appeared first on University Business. The offices have been closed and “will not be relocated,” according to the university. Read more from AL.com.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Accreditors and DEI At UC-Berkeley, 2.4 percent of the students are Black and 16 percent Latino. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some things changed in my husband’s role and I was missing some of the aspects of the roles I held before I started full-time assessment, so I’m transitioning back to student union work soon. And this wide continuum of perspectives and what's going on on our campuses for DEI. In California it's front and center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

"It is hurtful and absolutely repulsive though not uncommon to hear a white student use such hateful language and racial slurs that are disrespectful and degrading to our community," UW-Madison’s Black Student Union said in a statement. The video was uploaded the same week that Wisconsin Republican Rep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

The DEI speaker business is likely booming. But sitting students in an auditorium to listen to a speaker, despite the nature of the work they are doing, requires a certain activation energy that puts these events outside of the low-risk, low-stakes parameter. We need to take the conversation to the students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The discussion also touched upon the pushback against funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in various states, as well as conflicts between state legislatures and university boards, like the one in Wisconsin. The student union wanted to hire me to fix this for them. Oh, this is interesting. Right, right.

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