CASE@Campus, a cost-effective learning opportunity for CASE members, relaunched in June 2024 with a new cohort of CASE Fellows.

Tracy M. Sweet, Chief Communications Officer, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, U.S., talks shop about her school’s approach for when and how it responds to world events.

Advancement professionals are diligently focusing on DEIB initiatives within their teams.  And more and more of them are beginning to look outward as well. Two advancement professionals with wide experience working in the DEIB space offer practical strategies to more effectively identify, involve, solicit, and steward alumni of color.

Whether it be a crisis on campus or a volatile world event, communication officers are under pressure to respond. The stakes of these statements have never been higher. Hear from seasoned education communicators on best practices and strategies, and the need to take a deep breath and fully assess the situation at hand.

A professor gives economically disadvantaged Black British students a better shot at higher education.

In 2019, University of Georgia, U.S., Archivist Steven Armour launched the Black Alumni Oral History Project, a collection of personal recollections of African-American alumni. UGA desegregated in 1961, and “that milestone event changed our institution and the course of history, but the story stops there if we don’t delve deeper into what students’ experience has been going forward. What happened next?” Armour said.

Ben Fiore-Walker jumped at the chance to lead CASE's new Opportunity and Inclusion Center. The OIC will, he believes, not only allow CASE to live into one of its core beliefs of professional excellence in the advancement field but will allow CASE and our member institutions to achieve, foster, and maintain inclusive excellence within the profession. 

Colleges and universities have been working on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for decades, but higher education leaders say the last two years have sparked a shift. The 2020 racial reckoning and Black Lives Matter movement, campus protests, and pandemic pressures have changed the conversation, expectations for, and nature of diversity leaders’ work. Here’s what advancement professionals should know about diversity leaders’ roles in higher education today—and the future of DEIB work for development.

Vita Pickrum has spent more than a decade in advancement marshalling support for Delaware State University students and connecting with her peers in development at historically Black colleges and universities. Here’s why, she says, strategic focus and showcasing impact are crucial today.

Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine, a publication of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, dedicated a special section to racism as a health crisis and brought in Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Vice Dean for Faculty and professor in health policy and management, as guest editor.