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Tag: Dr. Shaun Harper
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Higher Education Leaders Hopeful After President Joe Biden’s Inauguration
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, with Vice President Kamala Harris by his side. Scholars and higher education leaders expressed hope that the Biden administration will take speedy and decisive action on behalf of low-income students and students of color.
January 20, 2021
Community Colleges
More Than 60 California Community College Presidents Form Alliance to Actively Combat Campus Racism
The University of Southern California’s Race & Equity Center launches the California Community College Equity Leadership Alliance, a new partnership between more than 58 community colleges to combat racism on their campuses.
June 11, 2020
Opinion
Honoring an Equity-Minded Pioneer
On Monday, Dr. Estela Bensimon—arguably one of the nation’s most prominent and prolific educational scholars—announced her retirement from USC and the merging of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) that she founded in 2000 with Harper’s Race and Equity Center. The merger will serve as a game changer for diversity, inclusion and equity work across the higher education landscape.
June 1, 2020
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Achieving the Dream Announces New Racial Equity Leadership Academy
At its Racial Equity Institute on Tuesday, Achieving the Dream announced its new Racial Equity Leadership Academy in partnership with the USC Race and Equity Center.
February 18, 2020
Students
NASPA and USC Race and Equity Center Launch Joint Program For Student Affairs Leaders
NASPA, an association for student affairs administrators, and the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center are coming together to create their first Equity Leadership Academy, an intensive four-day workshop for student affairs professionals on racial literacy. The initial series of academies will focus on training vice presidents of student affairs on how to […]
January 15, 2020
Latest News
Dr. Shaun R. Harper Receive Top Honors at Higher Education Conferences
Dr. Shaun R. Harper received two major awards this past week for his ongoing research focused on race, diversity, and equity and inclusion work.
March 14, 2019
STEM
Dr. Brian A. Burt: A Focused Future
From the moment that he catapulted into the academy, Dr. Brian A. Burt has distinguished himself as an exceptional researcher, teacher and thinker.
January 29, 2019
HBCUs
Marybeth Gasman to Join Rutgers Faculty
Dr. Marybeth Gasman, who has established herself as one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of historically Black colleges in particular and minority-serving institutions in general, is leaving the University and Pennsylvania to join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in the Fall.
December 6, 2018
Latest News
A Harlem Daughter Gives Back
Dr. Terri N. Watson is proud of her Harlem background, and although much of her earlier research was conducted in Florida where she earned her Ph.D., she has returned to her roots and is breaking new ground as an assistant professor in the City College of New York’s School of Education.
June 27, 2018
Faculty & Staff
Diversity Scholar Shaun Harper Leaving Penn for Southern Cal
Dr. Shaun R. Harper, an expert on campus climate and racial equity, is leaving the University of Pennsylvania to join the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.
January 8, 2017
African-American
King Holiday Kicks Off High-demand Period for Some Black Academicians
The lives of some of the nation’s most visible Black academicians are about to get even busier—at least for the next month or so.
January 14, 2016
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