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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

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Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election.

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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award

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David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

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Some officers believed the police academy fell short by not delivering a community history curriculum related to their eventual field assignments. These findings are similar to an earlier study of police academy graduates in Oakland, California, that found only 34% of officers believed they were prepared for field deployment (Sedevic, 2012).

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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When Dirks first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, where he served as chancellor, the state’s allocations amounted to 12% of the university budget. At Columbia University, undergraduate students are required to take a core curriculum of classes that include humanities.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

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The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains. It was in our curriculum. So women in leadership is not new to our institution by any stretch of the imagination. And because it's already built into the culture, students are expecting that dynamic. They expect women to be leaders."

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Representation Matters

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Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Courses were developed by various faculty members as far back as 2012, but the process stalled for several years until White stepped up and took the reins. “We

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