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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

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This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless. Im a former student activist, so seeing student activists seeing what we need was good. We took it upon ourselves, says Louden.

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

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I really enjoy meeting and collaborating with colleagues from across the campus, and it just gave me a much larger enterprise view of how education works and operates to support faculty, staff and students, she says. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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

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A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. Further, · “individuals who know the world only from their own cultural perspectives are denied important parts of the human experience and are culturally and ethnically encapsulated” (p.1). In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A.

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Jacqie McWilliams

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She leads all strategic planning for the conference, working closely with the 12 full-time member institutions and an associate member along with the board of directors and staff to support the advancement of student athletes , and managing 14 CIAA championships.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

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I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other. They expose students to different fields.” For her first book, A History of Asian American Theatre (2006), she interviewed over 70 people. It makes us see the humanity in each other.

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Brown Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Celebrates 10 Years

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When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. We thought it was important in the 21st century to begin to connect those dots.”

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

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Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. 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. Moreno at al. Traditional standards (e.g.,