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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The humanities do great things for the way people think, and their ability to empathize and imagine worlds they are not a part of,” said Fleming. Dr. Nicholas B.

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

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While the early cultural competence research occurred in health and human services, effective policing also necessitates relating to people, earning trust, and being culturally competent. Some officers believed the police academy fell short by not delivering a community history curriculum related to their eventual field assignments.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

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CURRICULUM - The content and focus of counseling sessions must be anti-racist and culturally responsive to be useful for minoritized students. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the Department of Educational Studies in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

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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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes.

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

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Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012). Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., What questions unique and specific to their lived experiences do they have? Fletcher Jr.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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They can be used in the classroom as subjects to challenge stereotypical depictions by centering experiences, ideas, and concepts that are often marginalized in traditional curriculum. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. Byrd, J. ,

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