Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

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.

Literacy 290

Literacy Scholarship Instruction Humanities 290

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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.

Community college 264

Community college Literacy Compliance Leadership 264

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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.

Education 312

Education Placement Teaching Instruction 312

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.

Retention 336

Retention Facilitation Faculty First generation 336

Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2023

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.

Higher education 52

Higher education Education Literacy Teaching 52