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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

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2004-2014 – Realignment and Internal modifications Colleges and universities became more aware of factors that negatively impacted people of color and women within the institutions.

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

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However, according to Getty (2014), new police officers also require real-world experience to reinforce academy education and training. 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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Scholars of Urban Education Gather for Solutions-Based Conference

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That's been a requirement for Lewis, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the executive director of the university's Urban Education Collaborative, the convener of the conference which first launched in 2014. Dr. Chance W.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

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Back in 2014, the number of women deans was just one. It was in our curriculum. Increasingly, other colleges and universities are also following in this tradition. Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., recently announced t hat ten women now hold deanships.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

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The central value of transmitting women’s heritage and issues in the curriculum and the way Mary Baldwin’s history is celebrated are maintained. The Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences opened in 2014, adding 30 new degrees or programs as well as Mary Baldwin’s first doctoral degrees. There is a dean of the College for Women.”

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Changing the Face of Nursing

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In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. She and Johnson have sought to embed the personal accounts of both the fellows and the faculty into the curriculum. “We Michael Brown, a Black teenager, had been fatally shot by a white police officer, and the city was on fire.

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Lifting As They Climb

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Mays Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Policy Studies, led the association from 2014-2015. Ducommun Endowed Professor (Emerita) in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, was president in 2011-2012. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E. King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L. Gadsden, the William T.