February 27, 2021 | : by David Fuentes, Francisco Díaz, Maribel Rodriguez, Elena Sabogal, Daisy Rodriguez and Johanna Torres, Francisco Díaz Recent changes and disruptions to teaching and learning at our university related to the pandemic were preceded by a demographic shift in our student body resulting in our University becoming both a Hispanic Serving […]
Duckett is currently chief executive officer of consumer banking at JPMorgan Chase. She will become the second Black woman CEO to helm a Fortune 500 company currently, following the appointment last month of Rosalind Brewer to run Walgreens. Before Duckett and Brewer, there had been only one other Fortune 500 Black woman CEO, Ursula Burns who ran Xerox, plus Mary
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February 26, 2021 | : A March 2 virtual panel will explore just what impact Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs) have had on California’s Latinx student population over the past 25 years. Titled “California Briefing on 25 Years of HSIs in Accelerating Latinx Student Success,” the panel is hosted by Excelencia in Education — a nonprofit
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February 26, 2021 | : North Carolina community colleges have asked the state for 5% salary increases in the next fiscal year, citing such increases as necessary for competitive staff recruitment and retention, The Center Square reported. Thomas Stith III The requests from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) and other colleges and universities
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February 26, 2021 | : Carlecia Wright became Lone Star College (LSC)’s chief diversity officer, Hello Woodlands reported. Carlecia Wright She was previously vice president of strategic partnerships and business development at BiasSync, a company that helped organizations manage unconscious bias. In the past, she was also chief diversity officer for Houston’s Office of Business
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February 26, 2021 | : The University of Tennessee Knoxville is renaming two residence halls after Theotis Robinson and Rita Sanders Geier, two African American trailblazers and social justice advocates. UTK’s Orange Hall will be renamed after Geier and White Hall after Robinson. Rita Sanders Geier Robinson was the first Black undergraduate student admitted into
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February 26, 2021 | : The University of Washington will be launching an initiative focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion, which includes investing $5 million for faculty hiring in the next two years. “We know that the UW must better reflect the communities we serve, which requires short- and long-term changes to make our University
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February 26, 2021 | : Gifts and grants to Brown University exceeded $20 million this academic year, as part of the university’s BrownTogether fundraising campaign, announced the Rhode Island Ivy League school. The donations will go toward faculty positions, research, student financial support as well as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, outlined in the school’s DEI
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February 26, 2021 | : Cass Cliatt got an email from a teacher at a predominantly Black charter school in New Orleans, Louisiana. It came with a photo of a bulletin board with her picture on it, next to pictures of the first Black ballet dancer, the first Black governor and the first Black astronaut.
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February 26, 2021 | : Pre-recorded videos usually lead to improved student learning, according to a recent study published in Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The study analyzed 105 past randomized trials – 7,776 students in total – that had looked at the effects of videos
