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Crystal Churchwell EvansCrystal Churchwell Evans has been named vice president of development and alumni affairs at Fisk University. She served as director of development for Frist Art Museum. Evans is a graduate of Wellesley College and Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. #CRYSTAL #CHURCHWELL #EVANS #Diverse #Issues #Higher #Education
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Clarks Summit University, in Pennsylvania, announced Monday it will close amid persistent financial challenges. In June, the Baptist college furloughed all employees while it sought to address its budget deficit. At the time, President James…
Julio GalindoJulio Galindo has been appointed executive director of college advancement at Mohave Community College. He served as chief of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging and senior executive director of institutional advancement at Mesalands Community College. Galindo holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MPA from…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Colleges within the University of North Carolina’s 17-campus system will need to reassess the responsibilities and duties of their diversity, equity and inclusion roles, according to guidance issued by the system’s legal affairs division last…
One of the unmitigatedly Black customs of America’s July 4 celebration has become the intentional circulation of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” speech. It is a custom that was ‘woke’ before the term became a political football for right-wing provocateurs hellbent on extending the culture wars in perpetuity. Circulating…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s final Title IX rule from going into effect in four states — Kansas, Alaska, Utah and Wyoming. This makes 14 states where the controversial rule…
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a memo analyzing potential anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies that the legal organization said could come from a second-term Donald Trump presidency. “Trump plans to intensify efforts to eradicate DEI programing and inclusive education, banning books and censoring curricula on race, gender, and the lived experiences and…
Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp has been re-elected to a second, one-year term as chair of the Southern Regional Education Board. Gov. Brian KempKemp will help lead the nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate compact comprising Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. “The efforts…
In April, I outlined the challenges Black students and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are facing with the rollout of the new Better FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form, a dynamic that has since led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers and educators as completing the form…
Delegates attending the International and Private Schools Education Forum at Friends House in London were told that the British curriculum is definitely appreciated in Saudi Arabia, and by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, or RCRC. “Riyadh, and the wider Kingdom, is an exciting opportunity – the question we kept getting asked five years back is,…