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www.insightintodiversity.com March 2020 $3.99 Recruiting Students from Africa The new frontier in international enrollment ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: The winners of INSIGHT’s Study Abroad Scholarship for Underrepresented Students Special Report: Schools of Public Policy and Administration INSPIRING A PATH Forward You go to college to explore your interests, ignite your passions and discover what’s possible. The potential is endless, and no matter what you choose to do – whether it’s accounting, zoology, medicine, – the University of Kentucky is here to help you maximize your experience. At UK, you can find the right opportunities for you – opportunities that will be life-changing and that will impact you forever. For Benedicta Wiafe, a junior majoring in Modern and Classical Languages, Education Abroad was one of those opportunities. Benedicta was a recipient of the UK ISA Diversity Scholarship, which put her on a plane to Paris and one step closer toward her career goal – educating people about mental disabilities throughout the world. While abroad, our students not only maximize their academic experiences but connect with people who are different from them, opening their eyes to fresh perspectives, different ways of living and new opportunities. Our world continues to become increasingly interconnected and requires graduates who have cross-cultural competence, real-world application and transferable skills. At the University of Kentucky, we prepare our students to tackle the globally competitive workforce that awaits them after graduation. Benedicta, along with many other students, has discovered, ignited and propelled her passions abroad. Now, it’s your turn. When will you join your fellow Wildcats across the globe? uky.edu 2017 2018 2019 An Equal Opportunity University In this issue March 2020 28 Recruiting International Students from Africa Is a Worthwhile Challenge By Ginger O’Donnell 24 Announcing the Winners of the INSIGHT Special Report: Schools of Public Policy Into Diversity Study Abroad Scholarship and Public Administration for Underrepresented Students By Mariah Stewart 42 Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the 26 The Importance of a Diverse, Inclusive Community Classroom and Into the Middle of Public Crises By Eli Capilouto, DMD, ScD, By Mariah Stewart and Sonja Feist-Price, PhD Public Policy Schools Must Teach Future Leaders International Recruitment Organizations 46 32 About Today’s Anti-Semitism Connect US Schools to Students Overseas By Natalie Monzyk By Ginger O’Donnell As Nontraditional Students Become the New Norm, Public Policy and Administration by the Numbers 34 Colleges Must Support Generational Diversity 49 By Ginger O’Donnell By Blythe Bernhard 36 Oregon State University Program is a Sustainable 50 Public Policy Schools Create Research Centers to Help Model for Feeding Students in Need Solve Some of the Nation’s Most Pressing Problems By Mariah Stewart By Ginger O’Donnell On the cover: Bienfait Mugenza and Philemon Rono attend Raising Awareness of Public Policy Careers The University of Rochester. Mugenza is from the Democratic 54 Republic of the Congo and studies political science, while Could Diversify the Profession Rono is a mechanical engineering major from Nairobi, By Mariah Stewart Kenya. In 2018, they received a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace to facilitate a weeklong summer workshop in Kigali, Rwanda called “Peace through Entrepreneurship.” Above: Rochester students Enky Mhlongo (left), from South Africa, and Princesse Mutesi Karemera (right), from the Democratic Republic of the Congo insightintodiversity.com 3 NATIONAL PROMINENCE. LOCAL IMPACT. The challenges faced by cities across the U.S. are not unique, but our approach to addressing them is. Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry and Innovation builds transdisciplinary teams of nationally recognized scholars and partner with leaders of the communities it serves to deploy innovating solutions that simply work. Learn more at icubed.vcu.edu. 1920-039 INSIGHT-march-2020-vFinal.indd 1 2/3/20 2:41 PM In Every Issue March 2020 Volume 94 No. 6 50 Crestwood Executive Center, Suite 526 In Brief St. Louis, Missouri 63126 314.200.9955 • 314.756.2036 FAX 6 Diversity and Inclusion News Roundup [email protected] [email protected] www.insightintodiversity.com © 2020 Potomac Publishing, Inc. New Directions Contacts: 12 Leaders on the Move Lenore Pearlstein | Publisher Holly Mendelson | Publisher Mariah Bohanon | Senior Editor Daniel Hecke | Creative Director Debra Boyd | Director of Operations The Diversity Professional Spectrum Ginger O’Donnell | Assistant Editor Mariah Stewart | Senior Staff Writer 14 Leaders of Public Policy and Administration Schools By Ginger O’Donnell Editorial Board: Linda Akutagawa Brooke Barnett, PhD Kenneth J. Barrett LeManuel Bitsóí, EdD Lynette Chappell-Williams, JD This Month’s Celebration Deborah Dagit James A. Felton III Cheryl Gonzalez 16 Women’s Suffrage Centennial: Black Women Played Gretchel Hathaway, PhD Pivotal Role in Securing the Right to Vote Lisa McBride, PhD Julia Méndez By Mariah Bohanon Ajay Nair, PhD Clyde Wilson Pickett, EdD Joseph Santana Shirley J. Wilcher, JD Anise D. Wiley-Little Diversity Champion Spotlight Damon A. Williams, PhD 18 Texas A&M University Encourages Communal Accountability Contributing Writers: for Diversity and Inclusion Blythe Bernhard Mariah Bohanon By Mariah Bohanon Eli Capilouto, DMD, ScD Sonja Feist-Price, PhD Natalie Monzyk Ginger O’Donnell Mariah Stewart Closing INSIGHT The views expressed in the content of the articles and advertisements published in 58 Universities Commemorate MLK Day by Reflecting on the Past and Present INSIGHT Into Diversity are those of the authors and are not to be considered the views By Ginger O’Donnell expressed by Potomac Publishing, Inc. Diversity Champions INSIGHT Into Diversity | insightintodiversity.com 5 IN BRIEF Brandeis Becomes First US University to Ban Caste-Based Discrimination Brandeis University recently became the Untouchables — facing severe prejudice says U.S. colleges and universities should first higher education institution in the and inequality. Human rights experts be aware of how caste prejudice affects United States to ban discrimination based sometimes compare the system to their sizable population of South Asian on the caste system of India, Nepal, and racism in America. scholars and students. Indians are the other Hindu-majority nations. The new Equality Labs, a Dalit research group, second largest group of international policy took effect in December 2019 and students in the U.S., and Hindus.— protects students and employees who are 77 percent of whom have college Dalit, or lower caste, in the traditional Caste Discrimination degrees.— are by far America’s most religious and social hierarchy. educated religious group, according to The university’s chief diversity in the US the Pew Research Center. officer, Mark Brimhall-Vargas, PhD, According to a 2018 Equality A recent Public Radio International stated that the school’s decision was Labs survey of Dalits in the U.S.: investigation into caste prejudice in not based on a specific bias incident but the U.S. included interviews with Dalit was developed so that “if and when that 4 in 10 students and faculty who say they have case does come about, we are prepared have experienced experienced discrimination from middle discrimination in education to address it,” according to NPR. and upper caste peers on campus. A In recent years, Brandeis has also 2 in 3 common assumption is that anyone hosted conferences and launched an have experienced studying or working at an American academic journal on the subject of caste workplace discrimination college must be upper caste, they say. discrimination. This particular form of Some scholars say drawing attention prejudice is based on the longstanding 1 in 2 to caste prejudice in the U.S. sows stratification of Hindu society into is afraid of their caste status unnecessary discord among the South four categories, or castes, that are being discovered by peers Asian immigrant community and determined by birth and considered stigmatizes Hinduism. A more pressing unchangeable. Members of the lower 1 in 4 problem is the xenophobia that all castes tend to have fewer freedoms has suffered physical members of their ethnicity face in the violence based on caste and socioeconomic opportunities, U.S., they say. — with Dalits — often called the Mariah Bohanon President of Johns Hopkins University Emerges as Vocal Critic of Legacy Admissions In an address to the American fulfill its core purpose of supporting percent between 2009 and 2019, the Association of Law Schools (AALS) social mobility, cultivating diverse Post reports. By contrast, the number of in January, Johns Hopkins University perspectives, and promoting scientific highly qualified low-income students ( JHU) President Ronald J. Daniels inquiry, Daniels argued. increased from 9 percent to 19 percent urged colleges and universities to do a JHU quietly phased out this practice over the same time period. better job of promoting and sustaining once Daniels took office in 2009, In a recent interview with the democracy and called for an end to according to The Washington Post. newspaper, Daniels again spoke out the “pernicious” practice of legacy The university enacted a need-blind against legacy admissions, which he admissions, according to JHU’s online admissions policy instead, which was described as a “peculiar institution”