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The Flaws With College Rankings

I would never suggest getting rid of rankings altogether. They serve as a great starting point for students who are researching potential schools, and they encourage schools to constantly strive for growth and improvement. Specific ranking lists that provide information on the best colleges for veterans, undergraduate teaching, and affordability can be quite helpful. However, it is important to note the limitations of the ranking system and to encourage students to find the school that is the best fit for their individual needs.

March 24, 2020

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Prepare for Coronavirus, Distance Learning

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), office spaces are temporarily switching to telecommuting, professional sports leagues are suspending their seasons and national conferences are being cancelled within the United States.

March 15, 2020

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You Can’t Compromise With Racism: College Leaders Must Address Our Ugly Racial Past

Institutional leaders must move beyond rehearsed rhetoric and seek to forcefully tackle their institutions’ problematic racial histories of exclusion and exploitation of people of color. This process requires identifying and addressing current policies, practices, and symbols that make campus environments openly hostile, unwelcoming, and disempowering for students of color. Such action is necessary to create equitable environments that affirm, welcome, and support all students.

March 10, 2020

Bias Complaints at SUNY Brockport Reach New Level With Firing of Diversity Chief

A series of events at the College at Brockport, including the abrupt dismissal of its chief diversity officer, the resignation of another diversity official, and an EEOC discrimination complaint filed by an administrative staff member have sparked weeks of racial turmoil on the SUNY campus in upstate New York.

March 2, 2020

Na’ilah Suad Nasir Voted President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association

Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir was voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She will assume her new role at the end of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. Currently, Nasir is the president of the Spencer Foundation. During the course of her career, she has also worked as the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities […]

March 1, 2020

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

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Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Honored with Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award

NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has selected Dr. Melvin Terrell, vice president emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University as the recipient for its 2020 Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award. Each year the award, named after the first person of color to serve as NASPA president and the first Black administrator […]

February 3, 2020

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Kevin L. Antoine Appointed as Chief Diversity Officer at Bucks County Community College

Kevin L. Antoine was named chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. Antoine holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and a juris doctorate from the College of William & Mary School of Law. He also served in the United States Air Force. Throughout his career, […]

January 14, 2020

Faculty & Staff

American University Receives $300,000 Grant to Increase Minority STEM Faculty

American University (AU) received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of women and underrepresented minority faculty within the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field. The funding would go towards an analysis of university policies and procedures that affect equitable hiring. There will also be a focus on the […]

December 12, 2019

New UPenn Scholarship Aims to Diversify Urban Planning

After CEO and co-founder of L+M Development Partners Ron Moelis noticed a dearth group of diverse students entering the urban planning field, he decided to fund a new scholarship program at the University of Pennsylvania.

December 9, 2019

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Celebrities Rally for Educational Equity at WISE Summit

Grammy award-winning sensation Shakira Mebarak, whose known simply by her first name, told the more than 3,000 delegates at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) here that her charity—The Barefoot Foundation— has built schools in rural areas of her native Colombia, to provide learning opportunities to poor children.

November 21, 2019

Former Diversity Head Receives $145,000 in Payment from UI

Dr. TaJuan Wilson, the former head of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Iowa (UI), has been paid almost $145,000 in salary, moving expenses, technology and “fringe benefits” costs while he looks for another job and works off campus for a “special assignment,” The Gazette reported. The university has not disclosed the location of […]

November 18, 2019

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