Pearl Stewart2022Committed to Giving BackMelissa Wheeler was propelled toward her doctorate by a professor once telling her that “statistically, you are not supposed to be here,” so she pursued not only a master’s degree in counseling psychology but is now a fourth-year doctoral candidate.March 16, 20222022An Inquiring MindIn her Ph.D. research, Rhondene Wint combines wet lab experimentation with computational methods. She points out that her current research investigates the genetic basis of neurogenesis.March 16, 2022STEMNSF-Funded Initiative Promotes Diversity Within STEM Faculty RanksEven before the acronym “STEM” was introduced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001, academics were grappling with the overall lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the specific need to accelerate the process of diversifying STEM faculty.July 6, 2021HomeCitrus College’s Retiring President Dr. Geraldine Perri Shows How Community Colleges Can Change LivesBorn and raised in New York City’s South Bronx as one of five children to a father who was a taxi driver and a mother who was a dental hygienist, Dr. Geraldine Perri learned the value of community college education from her neighborhood, her mother and her own experiences.June 28, 2021Community CollegesWisconsin Northcentral Technical College President Dr. Lori Weyers Prepares for Retirement After Lifelong Love of EducationMany people begin making career plans in high school or college. For Dr. Lori Weyers, the process began a bit earlier. “As early as kindergarten I wanted to be in education,” says Weyers, who is retiring as president of Wisconsin’s Northcentral Technical College.June 21, 2021LGBTQ+Ending the Hate: Scholars Emphasize Activism for LGBTQ+ Social ChangePeople 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, 2021Asian American Pacific IslanderScholars Call for Academia To Address Anti-Asian Bias With Structural ChangeProfessors of Asian heritage at U.S. colleges and universities have faced daunting challenges in the past year, and those struggles have intensified in recent months as violence and hate incidents against Asian Americans have escalated.May 10, 2021Faculty & StaffSurvey Reveals Full-time Faculty Suffer Losses from COVID-19The number of full-time faculty decreased at most U.S. colleges and universities and full-time faculty wages, adjusted for inflation, also decreased at most institutions, based on the latest Faculty Compensation Survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).April 14, 2021Social JusticeLaw Schools Respond to the Movement for Social JusticeThe resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the violent death of George Floyd and the global protests that ensued have triggered a reckoning in many institutional spaces, including American law schools. Concerned law professors and deans have examined their courses and curricula to determine what changes need to be made to address issues of racism and bias in the United States.April 12, 2021Latest News2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Amanda ParksThe daughter of mental health professionals — a mother who is a licensed clinical social worker and a father who heads a behavioral health care organization — Amanda Parks says she was “taught at a young age to use my voice to uplift those who may be voiceless as a result of what I now know to be oppression.” She is currently using her voice and training to advocate for Black and Brown children and their families as a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.March 22, 2021Page 1 of 23Next Page
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