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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. At Columbia University, undergraduate students are required to take a core curriculum of classes that include humanities.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills. Hines and E.C. Fletcher (Eds.).

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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?

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. At Fort Valley State, Akbar is the faculty advisor and producing director of the Joseph Adkins Players, the official student drama organization on campus, and she has produced an anti-lynching play series since 2012. “In