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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lingle Higher education and professional policing can be perceived as mutually exclusive endeavors, an odd dichotomy given that police officers are community members and students first. 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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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” 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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Georgian Court's tradition is a concern for women in the first place,” said Dr. Joy Smith, associate provost for student support and services at GCU. “So And because it's already built into the culture, students are expecting that dynamic. The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We use the term and notion of resegregation in special education to describe the overrepresentation of Students of Color in special education, an issue that continues to persist today. Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. public schooling.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system. Students enroll in one of eight senior CUNY colleges, taking most courses at their home campuses where they have access to the campus honors lounge. They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students.