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Tag: inclusion
Community Colleges
Flat is the New Up: How the Year of Covid-19 Continues to Reinvent Higher Ed
Along with its persisting global presence and its surging number of victims, COVID-19 has conjured numerous challenges due to its unprecedented nature. Whether we see the vast changes around us as positive or not, we need to adapt to stay in the performance race. Higher education is facing some critical demands, and it might be useful to summarize some gripping ones, along with the ways we’re collectively addressing them.
January 5, 2021
Recruitment & Retention
Doing the Real Work in Higher Education Amidst Two Pandemics
As we stare down the double barrel of a global pandemic and historic levels of police brutality inflicted upon Black Indigenous People of Color, we are faced with the reality that neither problem is going away. In addition to massive school closures across the country, many disadvantaged groups—Black families in particular—have suffered disproportionately during these turbulent times.
November 6, 2020
Community Colleges
Summit Focuses Equity Lens on Student Parent Success
The experiences of student parents pursuing a college education amid the COVID-19 pandemic was the focus of Thursday’s Achieving the Dream Student Parent Success Summit.
November 5, 2020
STEM
19 Universities Join The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty
About 19 universities in the U.S. have joined the third cohort of a program called, Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty. The initiative looks to develop more inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring and retention models within STEM, reported Forbes. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) administers the program with financial […]
October 30, 2020
Home
Panel Explores Equitable Access and Inclusion During a Pandemic
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) recently collaborated on a live panel titled, “Ensuring Equitable Access and Inclusion During a Pandemic,” which covered strategies that support and prioritize diversity and inclusion efforts in recruitment, admissions and retention amid remote instruction.
October 22, 2020
Faculty & Staff
Say Their Names, But Not the N-Word
The current reckoning about anti-Blackness in the United States is exposing the limits of solidarity. Millions of white and non-white people have marched and expressed support for Black Lives by saying the names of men and women brutally killed or shot in police custody. This powerful act of solidarity humanizes these victims while bearing witness to systemic racism. At the same time, faculty in some of our nation’s colleges and universities continue to defend the right to utter the N-word as part of their educational practice. This counterintuitive notion is not just tone-deaf to the national reckoning but harms the institutional culture, devalues the presence of Black faculty, staff and students, and compromises the moral credibility of the professoriate.
September 30, 2020
African-American
Why Countering Racism Requires Regular, Dedicated Anti-Racist Work
As a qualitative sociologist I am drawn to stories that demonstrate social facts. Here is a story that I would like to share that underscores why I believe that we must be committed to anti-racist work and do so even in the midst of a year defined by disruption.
September 24, 2020
Military
Air Force Takes Steps to Establish a More Inclusive Environment
To establish a more inclusive environment within the United States Air Force, the “Seek to Understand” video series was launched. The first topic of discussion was microaggressions.
September 11, 2020
Latest News
AU’s School of Education Implements Initiatives to Foster Antiracist Environment
After students expressed their concerns to administration following the death of George Floyd and other recent acts of police violence, American University’s School of Education (AU SOE) pledged to do their part to create an antiracist campus.
September 2, 2020
Opinion
How Institutions Can Better Respond to Campus Hate Crimes
As we gear up for what is likely to be the most challenging, start of the academic year we’ve ever seen, we must be vigilant and equipped to respond to incidents involving hate and/or explicit bias. With the persistence of our country’s sociopolitical unrest, coupled with a looming presidential election poised to cause greater dissidence, we should expect the tension to continue on our campuses.
September 2, 2020
Sports
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Council of Excellence Launched
A group of diversity officers in college athletics is launching the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Council of Excellence (DIECE), a support community for new diversity professionals in college sports. The initiative began with a group of 13 administrators, but now that the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) mandates that schools have athletics diversity staff, it’s […]
August 9, 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
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