Group of hands laid out together representing different diversities
Diversity

Lessons for Engaging and Retaining BIPOC Students 

How do we attract historically underrepresented groups of students to our institutions—that is, first-generation college students; Black, Indigenous, and other students of color; and students from low-income backgrounds? How do we best serve them at our institutions? How do we retain them and support them to persist and graduate? Academia,...
Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion
Diversity, Faculty Development

Leading Your Academic Department Toward Inclusion: How to Ensure Faculty are LGBTQ+ Competent 

During my six years at the University of Connecticut, I had the opportunity to interact with many different faculty members across our campus community. This was particularly true during my final two years, when I coordinated our Rainbow Center’s Out to Lunch (OTL) Lecture Series. The OTL Lecture Series—our center’s...