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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. We know that when the nation focuses on addressing systemic issues Black males can succeed.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities. Dr. William B.

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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. However, according to Getty (2014), new police officers also require real-world experience to reinforce academy education and training.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. The program offers a B.A. within six years. Nearly half of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the U.S.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We utilize this framework to analyze the use of diverse comics and graphic novels to facilitate critical conversations of bringing inclusive visual texts into the classroom. Suggestions for closing the achievement gap and otherwise improving the achievement of Black males are provided for educators.

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