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2021 Diverse Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Danielle Baker

Danielle Baker has long been concerned with human trafficking — the process whereby individuals are forced to endure inhumane abuses such as being forced into sexual slavery or subjected to organ removal and selling. But her mission to promote awareness about the growing multibillion-dollar industry has grown even stronger in the wake of recently losing someone close to her who was trafficked.

A Q&A with Jessica Gray, Assistant Athletics Director at Texas Tech University

Jessica Gray, assistant athletics director at Texas Tech University, discusses student-athlete activism, COVID-19-related challenges and the little things that have helped her get through the pandemic.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Vinicius Rios

Dedicated to swimming, Vinicius Rios had hopes of reaching the Olympics. That passion led to a swimming scholarship at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech). But, after not realizing his swimming dreams, Rios shifted his focus to business and marketing. However, his true interest was in videography and photography.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Amanda Parks

The daughter of mental health professionals — a mother who is a licensed clinical social worker and a father who heads a behavioral health care organization — Amanda Parks says she was “taught at a young age to use my voice to uplift those who may be voiceless as a result of what I now know to be oppression.” She is currently using her voice and training to advocate for Black and Brown children and their families as a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Jaylon Uzodinma

Jaylon Uzodinma knew he wanted to design aircraft since he was eight years old. A kid “infatuated with speed,” he read a book in his third-grade class called How Things Work with a diagram of the inside of an airplane. That was the “first moment” he saw the career path lying ahead of him.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Cherish Taylor

For Cherish Taylor, having the opportunity to spend her 11th and 12th grade summers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology exploring engineering and science opened new horizons and provided a foundation for her future research.

Dr. Cynthia T. Anthony Will Be Lawson State Community College’s First Female President

Dr. Cynthia T. Anthony is as much a veteran in the Alabama Community College System as anyone could be, having spent more than 30 years in various roles. And now, she’s gone from interim president to president of Lawson State Community College, the school where she first started her career.

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Report: LGBTQ Students Struggle on Christian Campuses

A new study by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) and the survey company College Pulse surveyed 3,000 full-time LGBTQ students at 134 four-year Christian colleges with discriminatory practices, most of which are members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). It found that almost half of gender minority students and a third of sexual minority students feel they don’t belong at their college. Gender minority students are about five times more likely to experience bullying or harassment, while sexual minority students are twice as likely, compared to their peers.

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Community Colleges

Report Highlights Challenges Facing Rural Communities

In an effort to analyze the role of community colleges within rural communities, the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) released a new report titled, “Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Innovations and Opportunities.”

College Presidents Analyze the Current Higher Education Climate at AABHE Conference

Over the last year, COVID-19 brought on financial and academic disruptions to institutions across the country, forcing leaders to adapt. To provide insight into the current landscape of higher education, colleges and university presidents participated in a panel discussion on Monday at the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s (AABHE) virtual conference.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Bria Macklin

Bria Macklin began her career in chemical and biomolecular engineering during her senior year in high school at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute when she interned in a lab at Johns Hopkins University. There was just one problem: “Initially, high school was a struggle for me because I always dreamed of being an actress,” says Macklin.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Nzinga Mack

Nzinga Mack grew up with anatomy and physiology textbooks lying around the house. She had older siblings working in medicine. From an early age, she thumbed through the pages, fascinated. She thought she would become a doctor too, but she ultimately fell in love with research.

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