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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erin Castro, the associate dean and associate professor who co-founded the initiative with 12 undergraduate honors students in 2016.

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). According to the study, Indiana’s grade retention policy was in effect from the 2011-2012 through 2016-2017 school years.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

He shared some examples of those projects: "We are doing a budget reassign, a complete reorganization and reimagination of our student enrollment services, retention services, student success units. Twelve months will be an eternity, so keep moving." Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance Dr.

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Through our ongoing partnership, we are committed to taking education and corporate America higher by advancing academic research, ensuring student success at publicly supported HBCUs and serving as a liaison to the federal government and local officials for our members and their students.” Dr. Harry L.

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Your ‘Nowhere’ is my ‘Somewhere’

Supporting Student Success

This was the start to the excellent Rural Student Success Unconference hosted by the University of Georgia, March 19-20, 2021. Higher education leaders, faculty and staff members, college counselors, and college access advocates met virtually to discuss obstacles and opportunities to support rural students’ success.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In classrooms, anti-racist teachers: (a) take action against a racialized education system inherently designed to resegregate Students of Color in special education by intentionally preventing the pervasive causes of resegregation in special education; (b) engage in justice-producing pedagogies (e.g., Mattison, R., Maczuga, S.,

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Bullying

SRI Education

We wanted to learn more about bullies and victims in early elementary school, which is a critical period for bullying screening and prevention (Kljakovic & Hunt, 2016; Yeager et al., 2016; Huang, 2018; Okonofua & Eberhardt, 2015; Tenenbaum & Ruck, 2007). 2013; Kljakovic & Hunt, 2016; Oncioiu et al.,