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Fuentes Earns the AAHHE Mildred García Founders' Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012. These schools feel like home to me.” He says he wants his mentees and their families to be there with him.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Dr. Joyce E.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This entails being anti-racist, equity-minded, and culturally responsive, as we have written about in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and several other scholarly outlets. Ford We write this being very mindful of Mason and the need for school counselors to be effectively prepared to work with minoritized students.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. That rose to 61.2% for students who entered in 2017. After completing his Ph.D.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps. Partnering with high schools that serve predominantly Latino students reinforces accessibility.

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

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Another fundamental aspect of this discussion is the need for educators to adopt an anti-racist (social justice or civil rights) and cultural competence approach to their work, which means being equity-based and culturally responsive in philosophy and action. Chapter 9: Harris, P.C. Byrd, J. , Seward, M.D. Meyyappan, A.

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