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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. It was an idea ahead of its time at the time of its launch, very few funders, organizations, or institutions were talking about capacity building.

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Opal Lee to Receive Honorary Degree

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Candice Lucas-Bledsoe, director of the Action Research Center in Dallas and SMU Cox Executive Education facilitator, will moderate the discussion. A retired teacher and lifelong activist, Lee was 89 in 2016 when she conducted a symbolic walk from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., Gerald Turner.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This facilitates racial and ethnic pride among Black, Hispanic, and other Students of Color. There is an important and necessary focus on socio-emotional learning (SEL). Culturally competent educators know the importance of viewing SEL (and all areas of development) through a cultural lens – racial identity development.

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Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning

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Blogs Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning 8 tactics to benefit your alumni—and recruit more adult leaners Professional, continuing, and online leaders too often overlook one of the most fruitful recruitment pools: alumni, many of whom are excellent candidates as adult learners. Here’s what to do next.

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Generating AI Alternatives – workshop reflections

Catherine Cronin

We created and facilitated an inclusive workshop space, inviting participants to personally reflect on these ideas and questions, and to create an artefact to express their ideas. The workshop was designed to run simultaneously face-to-face and online, with multiple facilitators in each space.

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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.