Jamal WatsonLatest NewsBook Review: ‘Pregnant Girl’ Prompts Public Policy Discussion About Parenting StudentsPregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College and Creating A Better Future for Young Families by Nicole Lynn Lewis is a powerful and deeply moving memoir that sheds light on the plight of an invisible population: student-parents. In her harrowing narrative, Lewis recounts the heart-wrenching pangs of racism and poverty that she experienced as a young mother working her way through college at William & Mary.June 7, 2021African-AmericanPulitzer Prize Winning Poet Reflects on Career TrajectoryDr. Jericho Brown first learned last week that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the very moment that the rest of the world got wind of the exciting news via a virtual announcement.May 10, 2020Latest NewsASHE Conference Centers the Stories of Marginalized GroupsNearly 1,700 educators from across the nation convened in Portland for the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.November 18, 2019News RoundupDr. Stevie L. Lawrence Joins SREB as Vice PresidentDr. Stevie L. Lawrence II is joining the Southern Regional Education Board this week as vice president for postsecondary education. This is the second major hire at SREB recently. Last month, Dr. John Michael Lee was appointed vice president for development, policy analysis. In this role, Lawrence will lead SREB’s postsecondary programs, such as the […]September 3, 2019STEMDr. Brian A. Burt: A Focused FutureFrom the moment that he catapulted into the academy, Dr. Brian A. Burt has distinguished himself as an exceptional researcher, teacher and thinker.January 29, 2019Latest NewsOutgoing ASHE President Breathes New Energy into Association“Envisioning the Woke Academy” was the idea of Dr. Lori Patton Davis, who made history last year when she was elected as the first Black woman to lead the Association for the Study of Higher Education.November 18, 2018African-AmericanReturning to her Rural Roots: bell hooksOn a Friday morning late last spring, bell hooks was sitting comfortably on a couch perfectly situated in a spacious single-family home that Berea College purchased and had since converted into an Institute bearing her name.October 31, 2018Latest NewsConvening Puts Focus on First-Generation StudentsProviding access and opportunities to first-generation college students is the focus of a three-day gathering that has brought academicians, business leaders, nonprofit and civic organizations here from across the globe to strategize solutions.June 10, 2018StudentsLopez Helps University of Phoenix Spread Its Cross-Cultural WingsSaray E. Lopez, the assistant dean of community outreach & inclusion, is a driving force behind the University of Phoenix’s successful minority outreach efforts.September 27, 2017Faculty & StaffScholar Lara Thompson Navigates an Unconventional RouteStep into the engineering lab of Dr. Lara A. Thompson, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, and you will quickly get a glimpse of why she loves what she does.February 14, 2017Previous PagePage 2 of 3Next Page