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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Delta Airlines has announced a partnership with Hampton University, an Historically Black College or University (HBCU), in order to diversify their pilot workforce and train more pilots of color. Only about 3% of...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)"To describe Dr. Zamani-Gallaher's impact would require hundreds of pages to document the many ways she has put her mark by calling out current systemic barriers in our system and calling in everyone to shape a more...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)By David Pluviose and Lois Elfman Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is a renowned community college leadership scholar. She has eight books to her credit as an author or editor, which include Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)OPHELIE ROWE-ALLEN has been named chief diversity officer at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, where she has served as dean of students since 2020. She previously spent 13 years at Fairfield University in...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)State of the Union? There may be continuing debates over the economy and inflation, but if you just look at our nation's diversity there should be no doubt. The State of the Union is strong. Or at least stronger than you...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)As a first-generation college student and immigrant, I didn't always feel that I belonged in higher education. But I had faculty and mentor support that empowered me to become the best version of myself in a new and...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)My great-grandfather Lloyd Newton Ellis Sr. made himself into an American success story He served his nation honorably for 30 years--through three wars--in the U.S. Navy. He started out in World War II as a stewardsman,...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)When James Gray studied the disaggregated data of student performance in developmental math courses at the Community College of Aurora (CCA) in Aurora, Colorado, the achievement gap was clear. White students were...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Obviously, I learned many lessons in college, and wanted to share those that have greatly helped shape my career as a university professor. I attended my local college after graduating from high school. I was the first...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)State senators in Wyoming recently passed a budget amendment that would end funding of the University of Wyoming's gender and women's studies program. The amendment will move to the House for further consideration....
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Dr. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to attend the University of Alabama, namesake of the Autherine Lucy Hall on campus, has died. She was 92 years old. Just last week, Lucy Foster had been in Tuscaloosa...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)At Austin Community College (ACC), Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. leads students in a course called Great Questions. It's a humanities-based, student-centered discussion class, where classic texts are connected with the students'...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)By Lois Elfman The pandemic has brought all students challenges, but none more than students with disabilities. On February 3, renowned disability rights advocate Judith Heumann held a virtual conversation with...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)In some places in California, gas prices are topping $6 a gallon. Across the nation, American pocketbooks are taking a hit, not only at the tank but in grocery stores and supermarkets, where inflation has led to steep...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Dr. Mautra Staley Jones has spent her whole career working with students who "check the boxes" of barriers that often disadvantage students in their pursuit of higher education. As a student at Oklahoma University,...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Nearly a quarter of today's college students are parenting, yet advocates, experts, and student parents themselves say that this population is often overlooked with grave consequences. Among student parents of color in...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 39, Issue 1)Reed Hastings, co-CEO of Netflix, and his wife, Patty Quillin, an independent film producer, are donating $10 million to Tougaloo College, one of the nation's historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and to...