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By Todd Mordhorst, Office of the Provost After five years working on the Transformational Change Initiative, principal investigator Laura Hill has a tough time coming up with any shortcomings of the grant-funded project. The initative received funding from 2016’s strategic reallocation to come up with new ways to help improve student retention. It is already boosting student success and achievement in a variety of ways. “Our goal was to have multiple touchpoints, using evidence-based programs that we know help students,” said Laura Hill, senior vice provost and co-principal investigator...

Inside Golden Globes' Diversity Promise: Too Late for Meaningful Change? TheWrap 3/8/2021 © TheWrap golden globes hfpa 2021 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which awards the Golden Globes, has already taken steps to make good on the group's onstage promise at its Feb. 28 telecast to add Black members to its ranks, but some longtime observers say it may be too late for the group to make meaningful change. The 40-second statement at the Globes by HFPA president Ali Sar, former president Meher Tatna and Helen Hoehne, a member from Germany, followed a Feb. 21 Los Angeles Times...

LA Times, published the same day, claimed that the HFPA members receive lavish perks from the studios and networks whose projects HFPA members later write about and vote on.  Late Saturday evening, the HFPA shared a statement across their social media pages laying out their plans for change, including "hiring an independent expert in organizational diversity, equity and inclusion."  RELATED: "Among other important tasks, this expert will audit our bylaws and membership requirements to help us guard against any exclusionary practices and achieve a more diverse membership. We are also mandat...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Saturday promised "transformational change" to make its Golden Globes voting committee more inclusive.

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