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TRACEY OSBORNE

TRACEY OSBORNE has been appointed director of the Center for Climate Justice at the University of California. Currently a management of complex systems professor at the University of California, Merced, Osbourne holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, a master’s degree from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

June 10, 2021

AMMINA KOTHARI

AMMINA KOTHARI has been named director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. Serving as an associate professor and director of graduate programs for the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University.

June 10, 2021

VINCE RODRIGUEZ

VINCE RODRIGUEZ has been appointed president of Coastline College. He has held various positions at the Coast Community College District, most recently serving as vice president of instruction. He holds an associate degree from Orange Coast College, a bachelor’s in information technology and a master’s degree in education. Rodriguez also holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership from California State University, Long Beach.

June 10, 2021

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KAREN DIVER

KAREN DIVER has been appointed senior advisor to University of Minnesota President Joan Gabe. She was the former chair for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and special assistant to the president on Native American affairs during the Obama administration. Diver holds a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a master of public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

June 10, 2021

TARA SETHIA

TARA SETHIA has been named the Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Ahimsa Studies in the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Sethia is a professor of history and the founder of the Ahimsa Center. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Rajasthan University in Jaipur, India and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

June 10, 2021

ROBERT LUCERO

ROBERT LUCERO has been named associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion; professor of nursing; and the Adrienne H. Moseley Endowed Chair in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously associate professor of nursing and graduate faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida College of Nursing, Lucero holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

June 10, 2021

GLENN A. MARTINEZ

GLENN A. MARTINEZ has been appointed dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the Stumberg Distinguished University Chair at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Currently professor of Hispanic linguistics at The Ohio State University, Martinez holds a master’s in Spanish from the University of Houston, a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.P.H. from Texas A&M Health Science Center’s School of Rural Public Health.

June 10, 2021

Community Colleges

Roueche Center Forum: Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Community College

While education is the great equalizer, enrollment and attainment gaps linked to race and ethnicity have long plagued the nation’s educational system, particularly among African American, Hispanic and Native American students. Researchers and practitioners emphasize the need for culturally relevant supports and interventions to address issues of equitable enrollment, retention and completion practices on college campuses. One such intervention, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), has proven to be a powerful strategy to improve student success and completion.

June 10, 2021

Deborah Manning

Mission Minded

The 2021 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs set the standard for success.

June 10, 2021

College Promise, ETS Create Models for Targeted Student Support

Through a partnership with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in 2019, College Promise has worked to adjust the “one-size fits all” model to target more specific student populations.

June 9, 2021

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Better Together: Four Mutually Reinforcing Strategies for Retaining Black Students and Faculty

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions are doubling down on efforts to retain Black faculty and students, especially at predominantly White institutions. In most instances, colleges and universities approach faculty and student retention separately, without understanding existing connections between Black faculty and Black students. Following are four ways that Black faculty and Black students are already connecting to provide support for each other.

June 9, 2021

Kwadwo Assensoh

Ending the Hate: Scholars Emphasize Activism for LGBTQ+ Social Change

People who identify as LGBTQ+ are nearly four times more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault and aggravated or simple assault, according to a study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law released last October.

June 9, 2021

Dr. Justin T. Brown

Kaiser Permanente Endows $1 Million to Health Sciences at Colorado Community Colleges

The Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges has received a $1 million, 15-year endowment from Kaiser Permanente. The Kaiser Permanente Colorado Equity Scholarship Fund will support students who are enrolled in a health sciences degree program and who are Black, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latino, Hispanic, Native American, LBGTQI, have disabilities, or are US veterans. The […]

June 9, 2021

Dr. Julianne Malveaux Appointed Cal State LA College of Ethnic Studies Dean

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, a prominent labor economist and president emeritus at Bennett College, has been appointed dean of the new College of Ethnic Studies at California State Los Angeles. Malveaux is a scholar, author, activist, feminist and columnist. For years, Malveaux wrote a nationally syndicated column about economics, policy and race and served as a […]

June 9, 2021

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Almost Three Quarters of US States Have More Prisons and Jails than Degree-Granting Colleges

Nearly 75% of states have more prisons and jails than degree-granting colleges, according to new research from Studee. Wyoming stood out as the worst by far, with 2700% more places of incarceration than colleges, followed by Mississippi with 411% more jails and prisons than colleges. On the other end of the spectrum, New Jersey had […]

June 9, 2021

Leadership & Policy

Dr. Charlene Mickens Dukes Appointed Interim President of Montgomery College in Maryland

Dr. Charlene Mickens Dukes, who recently retired as president of Prince George’s Community College (PGCC), has been appointed interim president of Montgomery College. Dukes was president of PGCC for 13 years until her retirement in June 2020. She was the first female president of the school. She was selected to replace Dr. DeRionne P. Pollard, […]

June 9, 2021

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The Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges

In this episode, our host Ralph Newell sits down with co-researchers Drs. Terrell Strayhorn and Royel Johnson to discuss the Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges. Now in its eighth year, this series of research focuses on workplace diversity, staffing practices, and work environment using a web-based survey approach to examine categories […]

June 9, 2021

Recruitment & Retention

Summit Looks to Address Financial Barriers to Student Enrollment and Degree Completion

Among the various barriers to college student enrollment and degree completion, finances stand out as the most prominent. This is what CampusLogic’s four-day SHIFT Summit is striving to address.

June 8, 2021