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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

Black Issues In Higher Education presented a phalanx of stories focused on the lethargic efforts of institutions across the nation, which sent a clear and direct message to the academic community that it was time to live up to the values of inclusivity and fairness that it espoused.

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Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

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A solution: Build support communities among faculty that model inclusive, consensus-building learning environments and model teaching and learning using trauma-informed evidence-based practices. Active learning strategies: Enable thinking and doing in the present moment Encourage collaboration over competition and Build inclusive communities.

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

predominately white institutions) known to facilitate discrimination, isolation, and marginalization. In conclusion: The “secret sauce” of HBCUs’ success in supporting Black students comes from their emphasis on “Black identity formation” and levels of support and inclusion, which can boost self-confidence and academic performance.

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Training Culturally Conscious Performing Artists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, aroused a sweeping reappraisal of race and social justice issues. Geovonday Jones recalls the ruminations suddenly became clearer and more intimate for him a few months later, when he learned about the death of a cousin nearby. I want them to become good global citizens.”

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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. Additionally, Black boys are viewed as older and less innocent than their peers beginning as early as 10 years old ( Goff et al.,

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Unpacking the Pillars of Resistance Against DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The political landscape in Florida has recently witnessed some significant developments that pose a serious challenge to efforts aimed at promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at public colleges and universities. Attorney Antonio Moore referred to this concept as the “Decadent Veil” in a 2014 Huffington Post article.

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