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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. curriculum and instruction, and assessment). In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020). Hillemeier, M., &

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). She was integral in launching Macaulay at John Jay in 2012, serving three years as the program director. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system.

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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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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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How Fly-Ins Impact Diversity in the Michigan Ross BBA Program

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I oversee our efforts, and I've been with Greenlight since we launched in 2012. I always think that having scholarships is really a good component for these applicants and students. That scholarships is a big component for students, so really trying to work with your scholarship team to see if that's something.