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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Department of Education, 16 states have underfunded their HBCUs by more than $12 billion between 1987 and 2020. According to the U.S.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

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Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus.

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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Hollingsworth ended up attending and getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Northern Iowa, which has a relatively small Black population. For her Ph.D.,

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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. Over her career, Page has secured about $40 million in funding to support curriculum redesign and faculty professional development.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As noted by Dennis (2020), community colleges in the U.S. Some officers believed the police academy fell short by not delivering a community history curriculum related to their eventual field assignments. Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve.

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Report Shows Small Changes in Post-High School College Enrollment

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The report showed that first to second year college persistence rates also trended upward from class of 2020 to class of 2021, but a gap between the graduates of high minority high schools and low minority high schools continued. Those students also had access to test preparation for ACT and SAT examinations.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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