Jamaal Abdul-Alim

3 weeks ago | diverseeducation.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim

For Morgan State University president Dr. David K. Wilson, the quest to attain R1 status – the highest designation a university can get for its research enterprise – is about more than just attaining some sort of higher education seal of approval. Rather, it’s about attracting world-class faculty, creating more research opportunities for students, and coming up with new innovations that benefit everyday people – particularly those in Baltimore, where the sprawling HBCU campus is located.

3 weeks ago | diverseeducation.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim

As a visiting professor at the University ofConnecticut Hartford, Dr. Qazi Arka Rahmanleads a Critical Refugee Studies course thatencourages students to see refugees as more than“simply victims, objects of rescue, problems, andcrises.”Students often express “that they have never studiedanything like it before,” an analysis of studentevaluations shows.

1 month ago | diverseeducation.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim

When President Joe Bidenreestablished the WhiteHouse Initiativeon Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians andPacific Islanders in 2021,higher education wasone of its biggest focalpoints. For instance, in April2024, the initiative hostedthe first-ever AsianAmerican, Native Hawaiianand Pacific IslanderHigher Education LeadershipDevelopmentSummit. The summit– which drew faculty,staff and students fromaround the world – tookplace at the Universityof California, Berkeley.

2 months ago | diverseeducation.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim

College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. That’s what a bevy of scholars told attendees who gathered at the annual conference of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education. Many of the 400 or so attendees related stories about DEI crackdowns in their home states.

2 months ago | diverseeducation.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim

To get to the office of Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr. – the world-renowned theoretical physicist credited with pioneering a concept known as supersymmetry – you have to walk through an anterior conference room on the first floor of the John S. Toll Physics Building at the University of Maryland. The walls are bedecked with a dozen or so framed color images of Adinkras.