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New Report Explores Recruitment and Retention for Academic Couples of Color

For his dissertation, Dr. Daniel Blake originally planned to focus on interventions for first-generation students and students of color. But when his fiancé started applying to Ph.D. programs, he found himself on a personal research mission, looking for whatever data he could find on the recruitment and retention of academic couples of color.

August 11, 2020

African-American

The Murder of George Floyd Serves as a Defining Moment in U.S. History

The murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25th shook America to her very foundations. Corporations, businesses, professional athletes, executives, and people from various races and backgrounds could not sit back and ignore or dismiss Mr. Floyd’s homicide. The murder serves as an exclamation point, or a significant defining moment, in the history of the United States.

August 5, 2020

Campus Climate

Sustaining Professional Development in the Midst of COVID

Professional development initiatives that support employees are essential, particularly as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and consider how best to reopen campuses. Pivoting to online learning and teleworking while preparing for a new normal has highlighted this need. Perhaps, more than ever before, we are challenged to build the capacity to meet the diverse needs of our students and one another.

July 16, 2020

News Roundup

AAC&U Report Highlights Results of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Centers Effort

As part of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers effort, 10 colleges and universities used TRHT’s framework to address campus racism. Now, in a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), each of the 10 institutions describe the changes they made to address racial […]

July 2, 2020

Students

How “Different” Will Post-COVID Higher Education Be, Especially for “At-Risk” Students?

How are institutions preparing to deal with access to technology issues? While I can imagine many institutions providing students with laptops, students may encounter barriers to accessing reliable internet or even power for their devices. For residential campuses specifically who will have many students stay home, how do you ensure that your low-income students have access to adequate working space to learn and study?

July 1, 2020

Students

10 Concrete Policy Changes PWIs Can Enact to Show Black Lives Matter

As senior leaders prepare for the fall semester, I would like to provide 10 concrete policies and practices that could positively impact the institutional climates for their Black populations.

June 25, 2020

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Ohio Wesleyan University Implements New Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative

This week, Ohio Wesleyan University—the private liberal arts university located in Delaware, Ohio—unveiled a new initiative aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion on its campus. Titled, “Stand Together and Work For Change,” the initiative will focus on four areas: structure and policies, teaching and learning, recruiting and retaining students and employees, and campus climate.

June 17, 2020

Opinion

Pledging to Disrupt Systemic Racism in Higher Education Advocacy

I have sat uncomfortably on raised chairs during enough panels with only other White speakers. I have rolled my eyes at enough invitations to events on education issues for which only White people would share their views. I have witnessed enough higher education researchers and advocates who make their living on equity work perpetuate cycles of mistreatment of graduate students and early-career colleagues.

June 12, 2020

Students

Report: To Ensure Equity, Prioritize CARES Act Aid for Public Colleges

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is felt throughout higher education, a report from the Center for American Progress advocates that public colleges and universities deserve the largest allotment of aid to ensure that racial and economic inequalities don’t deepen.

June 7, 2020

African-American

Summit Discusses Mental Health and Equity on College Campuses

On the second day of the virtual Campus Prevention Network Summit, hosted by EVERFI, conversations focused on diversity, equity and inclusion on campuses as well as the mental health of Black women students.

June 4, 2020

African-American

A Letter to George Floyd

I do not know at a biological or emotional level what it is like to be Black. White privilege was my birthright. Poverty, and homosexuality, and a propensity toward obesity were equally my birthright, and I have experienced prejudice for all of those reasons. Still, I do not pretend to know what it feels like to be racially profiled or to know that my ancestors were violently separated from their homeland and brought in chains to serve people whose race is the same as mine.

June 2, 2020

HBCUs

Inclusive Excellence, Now and Forever: How Predominately White Institutions of Higher Education Can Keep Their Promise to Students of Color

The impact of COVID-19 and the ensuing health, societal, and financial fallout have been disastrous and life-altering for most people and institutions, including a collapsed state of normalcy within the higher education landscape.

May 24, 2020