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Olin College President Steps Down Amid Financial Strain, Latest in String of Higher Ed Leadership Exits

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Gilda Barabino education leadership departures. Barabino, who made history in 2020 as the college's first Black woman president and second president overall, brought distinguished leadership to the science and engineering institution. However, financial difficulties continued to plague the institution under her leadership.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

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López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. These are the institutions that can show you with their data, with their evidence-based practices and with their leadership what they’re doing,” says Santiago. and graduate 19%. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). Encourage research and scholarship on U.S. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population. And although they make up only 18.5% trillion in 2021 comes with 4.7%

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

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The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. Other achievements include programs to bolster research infrastructure and scholarship assistance, Lancaster said. "We

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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While anti-racism mitigated this, educators also need supporting anti-racist, administrative leadership and policies. Yet, even with anti-racist practices in the classroom, Black and Latinx students still had increased propensities for being resegregated in special education, due to early assessments. Prufrock Press. Prufrock Press.

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Fostering Success

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These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. We also provide scholarships if they do get into UCLA or UC,” says Alexander. The California legislature put some caveats. She asked many questions, which he gladly answered.

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