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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Regarding tests, it behooves me to share Janet Helms application of Boykins framework to test performance , and we discussed this in a special issue of the Journal of Negro Education (2012) entitled Testing and Assessing African Americans: Past, Present, and Future Problems and Promises. The time for solutions is long overdue. Dr. Donna Y.

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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

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When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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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. The humanities do great things for the way people think, and their ability to empathize and imagine worlds they are not a part of,” said Fleming. Dr. Nicholas B.

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Study: American College Presidency is Still Largely White and Male

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Andy Brantley, president and CEO of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources “It’s a great cause for celebration that the percentage of [diverse] representation has increased,” said Dr. Andy Brantley, president and CEO of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Davis, as well as a master’s and Ph.D.

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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

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Megan Boren The report – created in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education – examines responses from teachers-in-training and available student data to discern how members of Generation Z – those born between 1996 and 2012 – view careers in education. South, the worst still being Louisiana with 3.7%

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Dismantling Global Injustices

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His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012. When he returned to the U.S., He later earned a master’s and Ph.D.

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