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It was a beautiful, sunny day that turned into a lovely, brisk night on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, the night then Sen. Barack Obama was elected the 44 th President of the United States. That evening, I met with other scholars of color in graduate school for an election night party.

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Before then, she held a faculty appointment as a research associate in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Brown-Hughes joined the university from Hampton University School of Pharmacy, where she served as an associate professor.

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participate in high-quality state pre-K programs – even though research shows that high-quality early childhood programs can improve student achievement and lifelong success. In many states, school funding systems do not meet the needs of today’s students. Only about 4% of Black children under age 6 in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

AERA Fellows were announced on Thursday and a distinguished list of researchers topped the list including Dr. Jerlando F. Jackson, a professor and dean of the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Education, is among 24 exemplary scholars selected by the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Jerlando F.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The new research center will be housed at Kellogg, bringing together top academics and leading thinkers to conduct research, identify best practices, and train students and leaders on how to engage across difference and harness the power of diverse perspectives. Schapiro Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow at Northwestern.

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JUNE 12, 2024

He is credited with coining the term "ethnic studies" to replace "minority studies" and was a productive researcher and scholar, publishing a number of books with his late wife, Dr. Julia Hare. Ten years earlier, he founded The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research. in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

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We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She has served on the Social Justice Action, Review of Research Award, and Minority Fellowship Selection Committees, and is a member of AERA Divisions K and G.

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MAY 6, 2024

Dr. Meredith Anderson Dr. Meredith Anderson, director of K-12 Research for the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, authored the UNCF report, titled " Hear Us, Believe Us: Centering African American Parent Voices in K-12 Education.” This report substantiates what we have known for decades: Black teachers matter.”

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Center will address growing health disparities through scientific research and outreach in Harlem and the South Bronx where deep health disparities persist.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Partnership for Inclusivity in Engineering Education and Research for Space" also known as PIE 2 RS, is a collaboration between UH, UH – Clear Lake, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the Boeing Company and the Greater Houston Partnership. NASA has awarded the University of Houston $1.2

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The funding of two projects – one addressing postdoctoral researchers preparing for engineering/STEM education careers and one supporting youngsters - will build upon the community partnership between UH and Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, says university officials. Henderson, an assistant professor in the William A.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

At a European research institute, the only Black female researcher was included in every possible photo, even when the subject of the photo opportunity was unrelated to her area of expertise. But service doesn’t carry the same weight as research. academics in various stages of their careers. I’ve felt it,” says Patton Davis. “I

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On Wednesday, AAUP renewed their call to colleges and universities to fund and protect research and teaching that addresses social inequity and the needs of historically underrepresented groups.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yet, Black teachers only make up 7% of teachers in America,” said Dr. Keeley Copridge, senior research associate, Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, and one of the report's authors. Patterson Research Institute and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

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JUNE 12, 2024

It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan. But Dr. Erin Castro’s dedication to UPEP over the last eight years is a shining example of scholarship with real societal impact.”

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The webinar allowed Diverse to inquire further about the scholars’ ongoing research and their views on a number of topics relevant to the current education landscape. Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My My sisters and I joke that, somehow, she has an M.B.A.,

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The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed. The research question is a primary mode of inquiry for him. “My This arm of my research agenda is aimed at understanding how campus cultures, campus climates, and campus actors (e.g.,

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MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs and her research team representing MSI-focused academics from across the country, have been working on the report since 2019. Dr. Rebecca Perdomo, senior research associate with CMSI and the Samuel D. How HSIs Promote Upward Mobility.

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Interdisciplinary research will play a significant role in our efforts to achieve Carnegie 1 Research status.” The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming.

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MAY 12, 2024

“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

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Lewis said that too often, conversations about urban education fail to bring practitioners to the table with researchers and policymakers to brainstorm solutions. And to have such a solutions-oriented conference is refreshing.

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Harper, who is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, will remain in the Center as its Chief Research Scientist. DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019].

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Research on gateway math as a barrier has mostly focused on students—their demographic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and high school grades. Using this data, the researchers performed calculations to find out which factors were responsible for differences in student performance. What they found was striking.

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The research she’s been doing at Morgan State has to do with her time at her alma mater, where she had gone the extra mile to make the school more welcoming for her and other Black and Brown students. candidate’s research topic was “at the cutting edge of how we think about college students doing community-building work.” “We

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New research from CUPA-HR on the state of the faculty workforce in higher education shows that despite some growth in representation among tenure-track women and faculty of color in new hires, advancement to higher faculty ranks remains a barrier. The research points out that these promotion gaps are found in every faculty discipline.

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JULY 10, 2024

The research is a collaborative effort involving a research team from American Institutes for Research that was embedded at the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct the study alongside researchers from the Census Bureau and Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics. "The

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JUNE 27, 2024

Newly released research highlights policy reforms and institutional support systems that target student fathers, particularly Black and brown fathers, in higher education. Despite their presence, they [fathers] often lack visibility on campus and in research, leading to their voices and needs being overlooked,” she continued.

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is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C.,

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The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 41 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented and underserved students in Ph.D. training programs. The work of the alliance is not easy, but the reality is that it never has been.

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In addition, research shows that whites are significantly more likely to occupy higher-ranking roles in academia than African Americans, Asian Americans and other races and ethnic groups. For instance, nationwide, only about 6% of faculty are Black, just over 5% are Hispanic or Latino and only about 1% are Native American.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Prior to joining Spelman, Lynch served as the Curator of the Moving Image & Recorded Sound Division of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for over 10 years. We know that her research and teachings will have a deep impact on the community of documentarians we are fostering here in the department.”

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JUNE 23, 2024

Martin serves as vice chancellor of STEM Innovation and Research at the University of Pittsburgh. It’s exactly the kind of mindset that will help affirm the university’s status as one of the nation’s best research institutions and engines of social mobility.” He served four years as the U.S.

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Megan Boren "The goal of the research is to offer insights for education leaders and policymakers as they target solutions specific to their states and districts," said Megan Boren, the project manager who leads SREB's teacher workforce policy efforts. "The The report found, for example, that the teacher workforce is aging.

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CRE2 was established in 2020 to bring the research force of WashU to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of the time. WashU’s scope and depth of research has the potential to be transformative across our campuses, in our community and beyond. Dr. Dwight A.

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in nursing research from Emory University. She has held various faculty positions between Emory University and the University of Alabama, where she served as the assistant dean for research and the director of scholarly affairs at its Capstone College of Nursing. "We We are thrilled to have Dr.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Du Bois Medal from The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Legal scholar Kimberlé W. Crenshaw was among those honored on Tuesday with the W.E.B. It is Harvard's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies. Kimberlé W.

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