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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Funds to establish the program will support two students per year with full room and board scholarships for their first two years on campus. The Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program, named after Wade’s sister, has extensively reduced the “summer slide” in reading achievement among Milwaukee school children since 2015.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Education launched the “Second Chance Pell (SCP) Experiment.” and Puerto Rico.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

I’ve loved participating in the conference every year since 2015, and particularly enjoyed co-chairing with Laura Czerniewicz when the conference came to Galway in 2019. For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This choice is informed by critical scholarship and activism, such as that by Dumas (2016) who writes that Black is a “self-determined name of a racialized social group that shares a specific set of histories, cultural processes, and imagined and performed kinships” (p. The Culturally Competent Educator: Dispositions, Knowledge, and Skills.

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