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Beyond Crisis Management: How Presidents Can Create a Campus Where Everyone Belongs

ACE — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:31:47 +0000

At the start of 2024, the media narrative picked up where it left off before the holidays—painting a picture of U.S. college campuses immersed in division and unrest over a number of issues, particularly the response to the war between Israel and Hamas and the heated debate over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at thousands of colleges and universities around ...

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Renaissance: The Role of Succession Planning in Diversifying the American College Presidency

ACE — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:52:34 +0000

This blog post is part of the American College President Study body of work generously supported by the TIAA Institute. The 2022 release of Renaissance, Beyoncé’s seventh solo album, took the world by storm. In “Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s lyrics, accompanied by Big Freedia’s call for us to “release,” express the need for releasing the way things have been done in ...

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Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership

ACE — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:31:05 +0000

Over the past three years, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the University of Southern California (USC) have been working together to study new ways that campuses are thinking about leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our research team identified an approach called shared equity leadership (SEL), which spreads responsibility for DEI work broadly across campus and creates culture ...

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Accountability for Campus Equity Is Everyone’s Work

ACE — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:49:52 +0000

More than two years after the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that arose in its wake, urgency around equity-minded and anti-racist work in higher education continues to increase. Student and community stakeholders are pressing college and university leaders for evidence of action and increased accountability around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. Data that show progress on key ...

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Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: How to Structure the Work

ACE — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:53:57 +0000

As college and university campuses continue to work to transform themselves into more equitable, just, and anti-racist spaces, leaders are grappling with the best ways to undo structural inequities that have become deeply entrenched over time. In recent years, campuses have focused on the chief diversity officer (CDO) position as a mechanism for leading change on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). ...

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Shared Equity Leadership: Transforming Campus Communities Is a Collective Responsibility

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:23:27 +0000

By Darsella Vigil, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Adrianna Kezar For more than two decades, colleges and universities have seen considerable increases in enrollment for students of color. However, equity gaps persist at alarming rates between these students and their white counterparts. Ongoing health, racial, and economic crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, the murders of unarmed Black Americans at the hands of police, the Capitol ...

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Rethinking the Academy: Lessons From Higher Ed’s Response to Equity Concerns During COVID-19

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:03:27 +0000

By Kristi Hottenstein, Rhonda Phillips, Kara Rabbitt, Suzanne Wilson Summers, and Gabriela Weaver Over a year ago, the coronavirus upended our lives and our institutions. The pandemic, along with a revived racial justice movement, has provided higher education institutions with a greater understanding of who we serve and prompted a more honest assessment of how we have served them both before ...

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Examining HR Hiring Practices for LGBTQ+ Professionals at Community Colleges

ACE — Mon, 03 May 2021 17:34:20 +0000

By Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez Over the past several decades, the college student population has diversified greatly across all sectors of postsecondary education. According to ACE’s Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: A Status Report, students of color made up 45.2 percent of the undergraduate student population in 2016, a substantial increase from 29.6 percent in 1996. However, higher education leadership ...

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Let’s Remake Racially Unsafe STEM Educational Spaces

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:07:15 +0000

By Ebony O. McGee In 2012, soon after I started my tenure-track job at Vanderbilt University, I became laser focused on understanding and eventually changing one shocking statistic: only 2.5 percent of all tenured or tenure-track engineering professors at U.S. institutions of higher education were Black professors. Eight years later, after some well-funded and well-intentioned programs directly targeting the racial diversification ...

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Refocusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion During the Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from a Community of Practice

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:48:14 +0000

By Taffye Benson Clayton For several years now, researchers and policymakers have been forecasting the shift in racial and ethnic demographics that is currently underway throughout the United States. These demographic changes have largely informed our understanding of diversity and inclusion as our universities prepared for the influx of a more diverse student body. Diversity brings with it a number of ...

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Centering Equity in Student Mental Health Task Forces: Lessons Learned From the University of Michigan

Laurie Arnston — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:47:41 +0000

By Sara R. Abelson, Janelle R. Goodwill, and Meghan A. Duffy This piece was commissioned by The Steve Fund, which works nationally to support the mental health and emotional well-being for students of color. College students are struggling more with their mental health than ever before: the percentage of students who reported being diagnosed with a mental health condition increased by ...

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Looking Through a New Lens

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:55:40 +0000

By Walter Bumphus. Dr. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, is the recipient of the 2020 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award is named in honor of Reginald Wilson, senior scholar emeritus at ACE and founding director of the Council’s Office of Minority Concerns, and is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding ...

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