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Texas Inmates Graduate from Austin Community College

Friends and family gathered at Lockhart Correctional Facility in Texas to watch 14 women – 13 inmates and one former inmate – graduate from Austin Community College’s certified production technician program. The class was the first for incarcerated women funded by Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area, a Texas organization for recruitment and employment services. The […]

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Acclaimed Author Paule Marshall Remembered By Scholars

Acclaimed author Paule Marshall, whose writings often reflected on her own heritage, the complexity of Black identities and racism, has died at the age of 90. Scholars say the Brooklyn-born daughter of Barbadian immigrants was an inspiring literary figure whose empowerment of African-diaspora women touched a wide and diverse audience.

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Advocacy and New AMA Presidency Define Harris’ Career in Psychiatry

Rather than getting career inspiration from her family and friends, Dr. Patrice Harris’ interest in the medical field sparked from watching a television show. Now the West Virginia University alumna is a veteran psychiatrist and the first African-American woman to become president of the American Medical Association.

Nonprofit to Implement Global Education Program for Girls

Plan International USA, a non-profit organization focused on ending poverty, recently received a $12-million donation to fund a new program to help young girls around the world pursue an education and feel safe within their communities.

University of Idaho Names First Female Athletic Director

The University of Idaho has announced Terry Gawlik as its first female athletic director, according to a story in the Rome News-Tribune. Gawlik will take over Sept. 1 as the first woman to hold the position in the school’s history. She was among 59 applicants and five finalists, according to university officials. The Idaho State […]

Young HBCU Leaders Look to Carry the Torch

Higher education observers consistently note that a number of HBCU presidents will be stepping down or retiring over the next decade, paving the way for up-and-coming leaders to carry on the work for student success and completion.

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Sisters of the Academy: A ‘Hidden Gem’ for Black Women in Higher Education

Nearly 20 years ago at Florida State University, a tight-knit group of Black women doctoral students and early career professionals came together to form what would become the organization Sisters of the Academy (SOTA), a space dedicated to facilitating the overall success of Black women in higher education.

What Beyoncé Can Teach Us About Race, Identity and Social Justice

In higher education, we talk a lot about diversity, but all too often students, faculty and staff can find themselves at a loss, and ill-equipped to talk openly, constructively and authentically about issues of culture, privilege, power, gender and race.

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Policy Research: College Promise Programs Are Excluding Student Parents

Twenty percent of college students in the United States are raising children, yet the much-touted “free college” initiatives, also known as Promise programs, often “unintentionally exclude” these students when offering financial support, according to a briefing paper released this week by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR).

Pioneering PBI-HSI President Discusses Priorities

Setting priorities and a strategic plan, developing campuswide buy-in and telling Bloomfield College’s story are the biggest challenges facing Dr. Marcheta P. Evans, she said in her first news conference since becoming the school’s first African-American and woman president June 1.

Study Finds Women Undergrads in STEM Facing “Chilly” Campus Climate

Research published this month found that as women students remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, they are being subjected to an unwelcoming, “chilly” atmosphere in these male‐dominated fields.

The ‘Weaker Sex’? #FACTS

As my last blog post, I want to leave you with a challenge – a challenge that, in the spirit of this blog, is at the intersection of diversity, education and health, and, I believe that, if accepted, can help initiate change we are sorely in need of today. The challenge is based on a question that I have asked myself on and off throughout my life. This question has been on my mind more and more recently as a result of the political and social climate in the US and my work focused on women’s health. The question?“Who is the ‘weaker sex?’”

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