campus climate series Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/campus-climate-series/ A Blog by ACE Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:30:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png campus climate series Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/campus-climate-series/ 32 32 “Am I overreacting?” Understanding and Combating Microaggressions https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/07/27/understanding-and-combatting-microaggressions-in-postsecondary-education/ Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:23:33 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5339 By Jennifer Crandall and Gina A. Garcia This is the latest post in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. I (Gina) recently participated in a diversity training focused on race and racism in higher education, an area I focus on in my own research. As I sat in the training, I felt ...

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]]> Individual Acts of Inclusivity Have the Greatest Impact https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/07/25/individual-acts-of-inclusivity-have-the-greatest-impact/ Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:00:07 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5324 By Kim Bobby Following our series on campus climate and student protests, ACE’s Kim Bobby discusses effective processes for building and retaining a diverse faculty—and how true inclusivity takes individual self-reflection and action. There has been a great deal of energy expended on diversifying the faculty on college campuses in recent years, and the discussion has ramped up lately with the ...

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]]> Affirming Racial Diversity: Student Affairs as a Change Agent https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/06/29/affirming-racial-diversity-student-affairs-as-a-change-agent/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:15:28 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5171 Amelia Parnell of NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education looks at the role student affairs professionals can play in advocating for diversity on their campus. This is the latest post in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. As we all have watched in recent months, tensions around racial diversity in ...

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]]> Addressing Islamophobia on College Campuses https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/05/04/addressing-islamophobia-on-college-campuses/ Wed, 04 May 2016 14:55:35 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4920 Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif and Penny A. Pasque discuss the climate at U.S. colleges and universities for Muslim students, faculty and staff. This is the latest post in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. As a higher education administrator I (Mary Ann) interact with students, parents, faculty and staff on a daily ...

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]]> Dynamic Diversity: How Campus Leaders Can Respond to Student Protests https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/04/20/dynamic-diversity-how-campus-leaders-can-respond-to-student-protests-across-the-country/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:30:35 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4835 Liliana Garces and Uma Jayakumar on a new model for understanding critical mass, promoting inclusive environments and facilitating the benefits of educational diversity on campus. This is the latest post in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. Over the past months, college students across the country have been demanding that their institutional ...

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]]> Racial Climate on Campus: A Survey of College Presidents https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/03/08/racial-climate-on-campus-a-survey-of-college-presidents/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:03:20 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4415 Lorelle Espinosa, Hollie Chessman and Lindsay Wayt of ACE’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy on how presidents have responded to recent student protests and demands for campus diversity and inclusion. This post is the latest in a series on the topic of campus climate. Black Lives Matter. In addition to crystalizing a movement, these three words encapsulate well the current state of race ...

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]]> Embracing Student Activism https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/03/02/embracing-student-activism/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:19:47 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4424 Cassie Barnhardt of the University of Iowa and Kimberly Reyes of the University of Michigan on the need for campus leaders to engage student activism so higher education can continue to be an agent of social change.  This is the latest post in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. This past November, ...

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]]> Inclusivity, History, and Navigating the Way Forward https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/02/17/student-life-in-the-balance-inclusivity-history-and-navigating-the-way-forward/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:09:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4332 In the upcoming edition of The Presidency, William E. Kirwan, chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland, asks if higher education is prepared to lead on the issues of inclusion facing institutions today. His article is posted in its entirety below. Most higher education leaders would agree that our nation’s colleges and universities have a responsibility to promote diversity and inclusion. First, ...

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]]> Reconsidering the Pipeline Problem: Increasing Faculty Diversity https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/02/10/reconsidering-the-pipeline-problem-increasing-faculty-diversity/ Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:03:25 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4296 Kimberly A. Griffin writes that a pathway is a better metaphor than a pipeline when considering how to diversify college and university faculty. This is the third in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion.  Last fall, students protested on college and university campuses nationwide, demanding that institutional leaders pay attention to the challenges Black ...

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]]> Breaking the Cycle https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/02/04/breaking-the-cycle/ Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:43:30 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4273 Anne-Marie Nuñez suggests looking to Hispanic-Serving Institutions as a model for how to build an inclusive campus racial climate. This is the second in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. Although protests over campus racial climate dominated the headlines in 2015, racism—both individual and structural—is a long-standing problem in higher education just ...

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]]> What Are Students Demanding? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/01/13/what-are-students-demanding/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:27:10 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4113 ACE’s Hollie Chessman and Lindsay Wayt analyze the demands from student organizers across 76 higher education institutions and coalitions. This post is the first in a series sparked by recent student protests and the national dialogue on diversity and inclusion. Throughout the fall semester, colleges and universities around the United States and Canada experienced perhaps the biggest upsurge in student activism ...

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