Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

Dr. Robert Paul Wolff, a distinguished philosopher, educator, and champion of educational equity, passed away last week. Dr. Robert Paul Wolff Born December 27, 1933, Wolff dedicated his life to scholarship, teaching, and advocacy. During his tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he held joint appointments in Philosophy and Afro-American Studies, he challenged conventional academic and social boundaries.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

Guest Post by Julia Corrie, Residence Life Professional Residence Life offices are the backbone of campus life. Similar to Campus Security and Mental Health Support offices, they provide essential services that ensure the safety, well-being, and development of residential students. Although Residence Life is essential to the function of any college with on-campus housing, the.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

In this post-presidential election reality, many of us are feeling uncertain about our jobsespecially DEI folks who have been seeing the writing on the wall for quite Shawntal Z. Brown some time. Unfortunately, I speak from experience. In the span of a six-minute Zoom call, I was suddenly jobless and unable to process the many emotions swirling through my mind.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Higher Education Inquirer has had the good fortune to include scholars like Henry Giroux, Gary Roth, Wendy Lynne Lee, and Bryan Alexander. And their work certainly informs us and helps us understand about higher education. With those authors and many others, we better understand many puzzling issues in US higher education. In 2023, we suggested that a People's History of US Higher Education be written.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

My friend and colleague, Maureen Henderson, who has died aged 83, joined the Polytechnic of North London as a social work tutor in the 1970s. At that time it had the biggest social work department in Britain and Mo soon became an important member of it, as the principal tutor and leader of the combined childcare and family social work course. She helped to make this course reflect the community that social workers served in London, including introducing an access course for minority ethnic stude

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at University of Arizona. Tenured: No Age: 35 Education: B.A., Journalism; M.A., Ph.D. Career mentors: Dr. Ozan Jaquette, UCLA; Dr. Gary D. Rhoades, University of Arizona. Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: Research should be serving a greater good. Doing research for the sake of research is great, but it's even better when we are able to leverage that into making some type of transformative change.

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