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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Choosing an Executive Leadership Coach: What Matters
A growing number of college presidents and other C-suite members are increasingly using executive coaches. In fact, access to an executive coach is frequently a benefit included in the contract of many newly-hired executives.
January 30, 2023
Opinion
A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color
The demographics of P-12th grade students is rapidly changing, with non-white students comprising the majority of students at 54.24%.
January 26, 2023
Opinion
The Problem with Our College Ranking System
With the declining mental health of young people, let’s not add stress by pretending there are only two dozen excellent schools and the future is ruined if they don’t get in to one of them.
January 25, 2023
From the Magazine
Roueche Center Forum: Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty
Community college leaders and their boards should consider investing in their employees to participate in practical and cohort-based graduate CCLPs.
January 19, 2023
Opinion
Racist Attack May Force Purdue's AAPI President to Acknowledge Anti-AAPI Racism in State
Racism is very real in Indiana. A student of Asian American descent has been victimized.
January 18, 2023
Opinion
A Lack of Bread to Win is Why There Aren’t More Black Male Teachers
Until there is a major change in the perception and reality of teacher compensation then I do not believe that there will be any significant movement in the number of Black male teachers.
January 17, 2023
Opinion
How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them
Nationally, repealing DACA would take away over 600,000 members of the country’s workforce, including an estimated 181,000 DACA-eligible college students.
January 9, 2023
Opinion
Will the Asian American President of Purdue React to Anti-Asian Racism at Purdue NW?
Here’s a question that will be a test of diversity in 2023: How will the first Asian American President of one of America’s most conservative public universities, in one of the most conservative states, react to anti-Asian racism in his leadership ranks?
January 3, 2023
Opinion
Inspiring Tech Context
The context of sports and entertainment stardom can inspire extreme levels of practice, perseverance, and production on playing courts and fields. Context addresses the important “for what” question.
December 30, 2022
Opinion
It was NEVER about Deion: HBCU Realities VS. Perceptions
Some may believe that being proximal to whiteness is a benefit to HBCUs but in reality, whiteness has never and will never be beneficial to HBCUs.
December 22, 2022
Opinion
The Seeds of Diversity Beget a President of Harvard
If you want to see the progress of diversity, look no further than the ascendence of Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black president and the 30th president of Harvard University.
December 21, 2022
Opinion
Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon's Mockery of an "Asian" Language is Emblematic of a Wider Problem in American Higher Education
Chancellor Keon’s performance is emblematic of a wider problem in American higher education: that Asian students are often regarded as a monolithic group of cash cows, plagiarizers and cheaters, objects of ridicule, or all of the above.
December 19, 2022
Opinion
Why HBCUs Need Campus Abolition (And The Rest of Y’all Too)
As academic research and movements committed to abolition have consistently demonstrated, safety for vulnerable people and communities is incommensurable with the presence of a violent apparatus for criminalization and punishment.
December 16, 2022
Opinion
Inspiring Tech On-Ramps
There is a need to find ways to meet students where they are and integrate meaningful content and curriculum into what they are doing.
December 15, 2022
Opinion
The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members
How can people within higher education collectively resist dynamics that position students as consumers, administrators as powerful bosses, and faculty as ideal workers?
December 14, 2022
Opinion
Unboxed: The Art of Fighting Off Limiting Labels
Labels can equal limitations if the person being labeled comes into agreement with their categorization and/or those who have decision-making authority when it comes to their upward mobility come into agreement with it.
December 12, 2022
Opinion
Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success
The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education.
December 8, 2022
Opinion
The Supreme Court Website Case That Could Make Discrimination Legal and Threaten the Meaning of Diversity
If the court upholds a website designer’s assertion that creating a marriage website conflicts with her free speech and religious right, what is to stop a college from saying they cannot teach or serve LGBTQ people whose beliefs offend their rights?
December 6, 2022
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