To comply with the Trump Administration's demands to end DEI-related programs in higher education, the University of Alabama has eliminated Alice Magazine, a student-run magazine centered on fashion and well-being with an emphasis on women. The university has also suspended Nineteen Fifty-Six, another student-run magazine covering Black student life and culture.
Duke University's Baldwin Scholars Program is a prestigious program that provides undergraduate students with dedicated academic courses and research opportunities that center on women's leadership. Although it was founded to exclusively support women students, the program is now open to all undergraduates regardless of gender identity.
When finance teams have gender parity, they are less likely to make overly optimistic analyses, especially when there are high levels of pressure to inflate forecasts due to their brokerage's affiliation to the firm being analyzed. This suggests that increasing women's representation in the male-dominated finance field could lead to more ethical and realistic research.
Currently serving as the inaugural dean of the School of Nursing at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Dr. Beard is a nationally recognized leader in health equity, policy, and nursing education.
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Notably, the authors found that simply adding more women to corporate boards does not necessarily increase workplace safety. However, their research revealed that when women directors are in powerful board positions or on key board committee, their firms' workplace safety increases.
"Black women’s experiences are distinct from other race-gender groups, and the fact that White men and women may play different roles in shaping these experiences, underscores the need for intersectional approaches to identifying barriers to equity and equality at work," write the study's authors.
The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, provides students from all backgrounds with the opportunity to obtain a business certificate from an Ivy League school at no cost.
The four women appointed to diversity posts in higher education are Romona West at the University of Arkansas, Rhea Roper Nedd at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Rassheedah "Eda" Watts at the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and Janice Hall at Virginia Tech.
Dr. Ramos currently serves as a professor of political science and international relations at Loyola Marymount University. She focuses her current research on peacebuilding in divided societies, the globalization of the far right, and the preventive use of force
