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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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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

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Go look at a curriculum. A look at UF’s publicly available data shows that the number of Black or African American students at UF has decreased since 2018, the year that UF hired its first CDO , despite an increasing overall number of students. When I hear that, I'm thinking the 1950s. Go look at the faculty and staff.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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In May 2018, COD’s board of trustees approved a $1 million investment to support a diverse group of 23 faculty and administrators to participate in Kansas State University’s (KSU) doctoral Community College Leadership Program (CCLP), the first cohort known colloquially as the CCLP Roadrunner cohort. Some distinct program features include: 1.

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For the Common Good

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Programming Capella University, which delivers most of its educational content online, launched its bachelor’s degree program in public health in 2018. His role in the creation of the new major has been developing curriculum, course content and rubrics. Dr. Lisa Kreeger The bachelor’s degree in public health at St.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready. math, science, English), employability skills (e.g., collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, work ethic), technical skills (e.g., internships). Warren, N., &

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

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According to the Pew Research Center, women earned 53% of STEM college degrees in the United States in 2018, but only 22% of those were in engineering and 19% in computer science. Despite the incremental increase in women entering STEM fields, there are far fewer female workers in computing and engineering than men.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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