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Supreme Court's Hollow Ruling One Year Later: Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Students Left Behind in the Pursuit of a 'Race-Blind' Agenda’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the fall of 2018, I was a student organizer for affirmative action and one of eight alumni who took the federal witness stand in the lawsuit Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Inc. Beyond the media smokescreen, Asian American and NHPI students face a diverse range of challenges on the road to college access and success.

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Report: Childcare Program Underserves Black Student Parents at Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new study from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reveals that Black student parents at community colleges face significant barriers in accessing critical childcare support, potentially hindering their educational progress and economic mobility.

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Reducing Barriers Like Standardized Test Requirements Expands Access

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macalester studied the issue, and we have decided that remaining test optional is an effective way to make our college more accessible to the greatest number of qualified students. Dr. Suzanne M. Test-required and test-optional admissions policies yielded similar predictive power for academic success. Dr. Suzanne M.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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since 2018. Moores work has focused on closing opportunity gaps, increasing access to quality education, and addressing systemic barriers that disproportionately affect marginalized groups. Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, being asked to return as a mentor each year since 2018 without being pregnant again has shown me that those tears were much more than a hormone-induced reaction. “As a proud member of the very first ELEVATE cohort in 2015, I had very few expectations. How to achieve tenure and publishing assistance is also on the agenda.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

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Curry also became one of the founding chairpersons of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce in spring 2018. Sometimes you have to say stuff and get people united because you said it.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access.