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Dr. Robin DiAngelo, University of Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Critical Social Justice Education , co-written with zlem Sensoy, which received both the American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award (2012) and the Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018).

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recruits develop cognitive skills that facilitate trust, legitimacy, and policing practices. These findings are similar to an earlier study of police academy graduates in Oakland, California, that found only 34% of officers believed they were prepared for field deployment (Sedevic, 2012).

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This facilitates racial and ethnic pride among Black, Hispanic, and other Students of Color. There is an important and necessary focus on socio-emotional learning (SEL). Culturally competent educators know the importance of viewing SEL (and all areas of development) through a cultural lens – racial identity development. Hillemeier, M., &

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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Institutions Can Help Close Widening Completion Gaps with the Postsecondary Data GPS

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Last November, the National Center for Education Statistics released the latest results from the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17), which surveyed first-time students after their first year of higher education in 2012, and then again in 2014 and 2017.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. In the upcoming and final blog post, we will explore how data might be employed in practice to facilitate institutional effectiveness. Ready to learn more? Norris, D.