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Giving the work of black writers exposure and sharing that literature has been a huge part of Dr. Brenda M. Greene 's life and career. A professor ...

“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” appear in the U.S. Declaration of Independence as “unalienable Rights,” the kind of rights that are su...

Retirement is about more than the numbers. Most women in higher education have kept abreast of their pension accounts and considered when to take S...

These conversations, particularly around #MeToo and patriarchy, are important because we really need to consider what the steps are toward equity.

“I wish I were easygoing,” I say to my partner, as he drives our ancient, lumbering SUV, with a camper in tow, to the beach for spring break. It’s ...

Stephanie Briggs likes to move, and when she does, it's often to pave her own way. Briggs' higher education journey began at Howard University DC; ...

There was much media attention given to the Women's March on Washington in 2017 and the local marches across the nation and the globe. Over a year ...

When Dr. Keisha Blain signed the contract to release her first book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Struggle for Freedom (2...

It seems now that every few months there's another horrifying sexual assault scandal at a university. The latest, of course, is Michigan State Univ...

It was the tentative knock on my office door that made me realize something was wrong. It wasn't quite time for office hours, and students rarely s...

An assistant professor of management in the School of Business & Industry at Florida A&M University and a sought-after consultant for businesses, D...

Sitting in a home economics class in the sixth grade was the first time I realized that the clothes I wore were a problem. Our class was between pr...

With the goal of training teachers truly equipped to teach in urban schools, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University NJ has in...

In 2000, I left my tenure-track job for love, or so I thought. When love, or whatever it was, fell apart, I was homeless. Part of why I was vulnera...

This is the third piece in a series about activism in higher education. College campuses have always been a place of activism in its many forms. In...

In November 2017, I—along with more than 2,500 other attendees—showed up for the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association (NWS...

I am definitely a child of a new era, where a career is not a lifelong commitment but rather a continuous opportunity to seek new challenges and to...

When Dr. Shirley M. Collado became president of Ithaca College NY on July 1, she brought her experience in student and faculty development, vision ...

When you're down so far, the only place to go is up. Tomisha Brock knows the situation well. Brock joined Clark Atlanta University GA early this ye...

Take a moment to really consider this: If women make up 10% of the leadership positions, men feel like their workplace has achieved gender diversity.