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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This pedagogy exists when teachers modify their teaching to facilitate the achievement of marginalized students – minoritized students and low-income students. Referencing Parekh (2006), “Multicultural education is an education for freedom that is essential in today’s ethnically polarized and troubled world” (p.7).

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Fostering Success

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I think public institutions have a mission to make sure that those in society have access to higher education,” says Alexander, who arrived at UCLA in 2006. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Mental Health of College Students of Color

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Between 2006 and 2021, Black student enrollment dropped from 7% to 4% and Indigenous student enrollment dropped from 1% to 0.1%. The Steve Fund and many national experts anticipate that eliminating racial considerations in admissions will dramatically reduce the number of students of color in selective higher education institutions.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

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2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Moreno at al.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

through open licensing) is a significant move towards this, but we know that open licensing alone does not facilitate access by everyone. Making resources legally accessible (e.g. In considering such important questions, we can uncover further layers of injustice to be addressed.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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School counselors can facilitate this by having Black males take career assessments such as the O’Net Interest Profiler , and ensure they are taking rigorous coursework in preparation for postsecondary options such as a college/university.