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Alabama Man Who Helped Integrate Marines Dies
Raymond Williams, a member of the first U.S. Marines unit to accept African Americans during World War II, died Sunday in Birmingham at age 92, said his son, Kevin Williams. A corporal in the Montford Point Marines, Raymond Williams lived in Huntsville until recently moving to Birmingham to live with his daughter Felicia and son-in-law […]
February 7, 2020
HBCUs
Letter Requests Progress on Small Business Administration’s Outreach to HBCUs
Five members of Congress has signed a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) associate administrator, Allen Gutierrez, requesting that the agency report its progress in implementing last year’s outreach goals to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In April 2019, Gutierrez testified on how SBA could provide better entrepreneurial services to HBCUs in […]
February 7, 2020
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Tuskegee Airman Who Attended UI Gets Promotion, Salute From President
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last summer, Champaign County honored the oldest living member of the Tuskegee Airmen, making Charles E. McGee grand marshal of its Fourth of July parade. Tuesday night, it was the commander-in-chief’s turn. “General McGee, our nation salutes you. Thank you, sir,” President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address, […]
February 7, 2020
Leadership & Policy
UNCF and H.E.L.F. Partner to Build HBCU Leadership Pipeline
With the average tenure of a college president steadily decreasing and a “mounting void within HBCU leadership,” the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) have announced a three-year partnership in which they will work together to educate and prepare a pipeline of individuals who wish to serve in leadership […]
February 7, 2020
News Roundup
First African American Female Elected Auburn University SGA President
Auburn University junior Ada Ruth Huntley has been elected Student Government Association (SGA) president, according to The Auburn Plainsman. Huntley is the first African-American woman elected to the post. According to the The Plainsman, Huntley’s campaign “focused on health, wellness and diversity.” Huntley said she wants to create an inclusion certification program for on-campus organizations […]
February 7, 2020
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Posse Program Brings Veterans to Wesleyan, Broadening Perspectives on Campus
While 21 percent of college students attend high-graduation rate colleges or universities like Wesleyan, only 10 percent of veterans do so, according to a 2019 report by research group Ithaka S+R. The Posse Foundation, in conjunction with the University of Chicago, Vassar College, the University of Virginia, and Wesleyan University, aims to boost those numbers. […]
February 7, 2020
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New Strategies Recommended to Promote Equity in Student Assessment
The January 2020 report, “A New Decade For Assessment: Embedding Equity into Assessment Praxis,” suggests new models that actively involve students throughout the process and offer enhanced professional development for relevant personnel.
February 7, 2020
African-American
“Just Mercy” is a Realistic Portrayal of the Problems in the Criminal Justice System, Say Scholars
In an early scene in the film, “Just Mercy,” death row inmate Walter “Johnny D.” McMillian, wearing a white jumpsuit, sits across the table from his lawyer Bryan Stevenson, with the sterile bars of an Alabama prison in the background.
February 6, 2020
Latest News
Report: Higher Ed Giving Rose 6.1% in 2019 But Growth Rate Slowed
Donations to higher education institutions rose 6.1% in 2019 compared to 2018, boosted by a $1.8 billion gift from presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg and his foundations to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, said a new survey.
February 6, 2020
Social Justice
Southern University Law Center Joins ‘Universities Studying Slavery’, a 40+ School Consortium
Southern University Law Center (SULC) is the latest of 40+ schools to join a consortium titled Universities Studying Slavery (USS). Organized through the University of Virginia, the consortium addresses historical and contemporary issues related to race and inequality in higher education as well as how the complicated legacy of slavery still shapes modern American society. […]
February 6, 2020
African-American
Social-Emotional Learning for Black Students is Ineffective When it is Culture-Blind
Educational professionals ill-prepared to work in culturally relevant ways with students of color in their capacity as mental health professionals (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists), and teachers, administrators, and policy makers can contribute to and even exacerbate SEL issues for students of color.
February 6, 2020
News Roundup
Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten Named First Black President of Simmons University
Simmons University, a women’s undergraduate school and co-ed graduate school in Boston, has appointed Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten as its ninth president. She will be the first Black to serve in the role and will succeed Helen G. Drinan, who held the position for the past 12 years. Wooten has assumed various leadership positions throughout […]
February 6, 2020
Opinion
2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade
Over the years, organizations have sought to address, bias, discrimination and racism in the workplace by implementing a variety of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives with goals to address and fix these issues in order to make their organization’s more inclusive.
February 6, 2020
News Roundup
Educational Technology Entrepreneur Named Chair of Hampshire’s Board of Trustees
Hampshire College’s Board of Trustees has appointed Jose Fuentes, an educational technology entrepreneur, as its next chair—a role in which he plans to help update the school’s curriculum, support a major fundraising campaign, implement a sustainable business model and celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary. A 2005 alumnus of Hampshire, Fuentes has been involved in various […]
February 6, 2020
Press Releases
Dr. Curtis Ivery to receive the 2020 Diverse Champions Award
Fairfax, Va.— Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce that Dr. Curtis Ivery will be the recipient of the 2020 Diverse Champions Award.
February 6, 2020
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Johns Hopkins Ditched Legacy Admissions to Boost Diversity – And It Worked
In 2014, Johns Hopkins University got rid of legacy as a factor in admissions, hoping to up its student diversity. Six years later, its president, Ronald J. Daniels, wrote about the decision in The Atlantic. In sum, it worked.
February 5, 2020
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TANUJA SINGH
TANUJA SINGH has been named provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Loyola University in New Orleans. Currently business dean at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Singh holds a master’s degree from Allahabad University, a master’s in business administration from Millsaps College in Mississippi and a Ph.D. in marketing from Southern Illinois University.
February 5, 2020
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SARAH GEHLERT
SARAH GEHLERT has been named dean of the University of Southern California’s (USC) Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Currently dean of USC’s College of Social Work, Gehlert holds a bachelor’s and master’s in anthropology as well as a master’s in social work from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She earned her Ph.D. in social work from Washington University.
February 5, 2020
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