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Blog 54/ Questions Worth Following: When the Answer Is Not the End of the Inquiry
Completing the dissertation did not end the questions. In this Scholarly Sips reflection, Dr. Courtney Nicole Johnson explores what it means to continue asking, researching, writing, and pursuing excellence as scholarship moves beyond the degree and into books, conversations, practice, and new possibilities.
Blog 53/ When Scholarship Becomes Service: Stewarding the Research Beyond the Degree
52/ Between Beginnings and Endings: What 72 Hours Taught Me About the Assignment
In just 72 hours, I moved through conversations about legacy, new beginnings, unexpected grief, faith, and encouragement. This Freshly Brewed Reflection explores what those encounters taught me about purpose, spiritual gifting, and staying available to the assignment God has placed before us.
Blog 51/ Stewarding the Assignment: Learning to Pray, Remain Rooted, and Carry the Answered Prayer Well
Blog 50/ The First Fifty Cups: What Brewing Bold Conversations Has Taught Me
Blog 49 / Behind the Brew: When an Idea Refuses to Leave You
Blog 48/ Halfway Home: Stewarding the Miracles of 2026
Blog 47/ When Achievement Isn't Enough: A Juneteenth Reflection on Access, Opportunity, and the Post-DEI Era
Blog 46/ Fall 2026: When Consequences Become Observable
Fall 2026 may represent the first full academic cycle in which the cumulative consequences of DEI retrenchment become observable across higher education. Drawing from years of experience as a faculty member, enrollment professional, researcher, and national presenter, Dr. Courtney Nicole Johnson explores what happens when institutions attempt to operate within the realities they have created.
Blog 45/ I Am the Graduation
Blog 44/ When the Work Is Repositioned, but the Humanity Is Removed: Extending the Post-DEI Hollowing Phenomenon™
Blog 43/ When the Map Changes: Extending the Post-DEI Hollowing Phenomenon™ Beyond the Campus
Blog 42/ What God Ordered, Opposition Couldn’t Stop
Blog 41/ They Didn’t Just Leave: A Latte on What’s Really Happening to Black Women at Work
Blog 40/ The Pattern Is the Message: When Engagement Is Disciplined in the Post-DEI Era
Blog 39/ From Silence to Sit-Ins: When Post-DEI Hollowing Produces Student Resistance
Blog 38/ Student Success in the Era of Post-DEI Hollowing
Blog 37/ From Naming to Movement — When the Work Finds You
Blog 36/ The Expanding Landscape of the Post-DEI Hollowing Phenomenon™
