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Mike Gavin, the founder of\u00a0Education for All, a grassroots group of community college administrators fighting legislative attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, will step down as president of Delta College in January. He has been in the post since 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gavin informed the Delta College Board of Trustees last week that he would resign to lead a national coalition focused on defending equity in higher ed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy\u00a0whole career has been focused on equity and how higher ed is situated in the democratic experiment, so when I was asked to do the next thing, I\u00a0felt compelled to do it,\u201d Gavin told\u00a0Inside Higher Ed<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was not looking for a job. Delta has been amazing. The faculty and staff are some of the most insightful and student-centered I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n More information about the coalition, including its priorities and funding model, will be released soon, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since the early days of the second Trump administration, Gavin has been a leading voice in defending DEI work in higher ed, especially at community colleges. Participation in Education for All surged at the beginning of the year as college leaders sought advice on protecting programs and navigating compliance with Trump administration mandates.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy scholarship rests on the great thinkers of our past, from Benjamin Franklin to James Baldwin. It is also grounded in the belief that our country depends on a higher education sector that must be free from partisan interference, in order to democratize higher education for all,\u201d Gavin wrote in a letter to the Delta College community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Delta College trustees said they will begin the process of appointing Gavin\u2019s successor in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mike Gavin, the founder of\u00a0Education for All, a grassroots group of community college administrators fighting legislative attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, will step down as president of Delta College in January. He has been in the post since 2021.\u00a0 Gavin informed the Delta College Board of Trustees last week that he would resign to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1772,2129,2274,12995,1660,4520,557],"class_list":{"0":"post-25958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-coalition","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-dei","11":"tag-gavin","12":"tag-lead","13":"tag-mike","14":"tag-resigns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}