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Rolita Flores Ezeonu

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Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025. During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

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The evolution of how end-users obtain and utilize information spurred a new movement in education that LeiLani Cauthen described in her 2017 book, The Consumerization of Learning. Of those enrolled for credit-based instruction, 43% are White, 28% are Hispanic, 12% are Black, and 6% are Asian/Pacific Islander.

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

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Shirley Frye received the 2022 Triad Business Journal’s Outstanding Women in Business Special Achievement Award, the (Greensboro, North Carolina) News & Record Woman of the Year Award for 2017, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors.

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Page Appointed President of Stillman College

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Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017. Page was a United Negro College Fund/Mellon International Faculty Seminar Fellow and is a certified Supplemental Instruction Supervisor.

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

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culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment). conceptually-based, rigorous, and equitable); and (c) create an inclusive classroom setting where all students can experience success, eliminating restrictive and segregated special education placements.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

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Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. This research showed significant increases in persistence for students who participated in tutoring programs and who received supplemental instruction.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

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In 2017, Carnegie Math Pathways received funding from the federal Department of Education to launch the program with Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) like KBOCC. Karon Klipple, director of Carnegie Math Pathways, said, “math was the single greatest barrier to college completion. Success rates have grown from 40 to 60% on average.