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With those passions — news, diversity, education — I came to Diverse, first as associate editor. You can say I was tailor-made for this job.
It’s gratifying to begin my editorship as this publication, formerly Black Issues In Higher Education, enters its 25th year. The landscape has changed in that time, but the challenges to diversity are ever present, even as the nation prepares for its first Black president or its first woman vice president. Anti-affirmative action bans are on referenda ballots in two states where minorities struggle to reach parity in enrollment at flagship institutions. One critic of holistic admissions wants to preclude minority students from writing in their admissions essays about the challenges they face being minorities.
Clearly, our mission is as important as ever. So continue to expect from us, beginning with this edition, insightful articles and columns confronting diversity challenges, such as the minority student gender gap, the evolving role of HBCUs and other minorityserving institutions and high-stakes testing and its effect on access and equity. In this Hispanic Heritage Month edition, we take a look at Latina sororities, which, in many ways, double as retention tools because they help many first-generation Latina students adjust and feel connected to their campuses, Diverse correspondent Reginald Stuart reports in “The Next Best Thing to Family.”
