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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In our field of biomedical engineering there are all these aspects of hidden curriculum that we wanted to be able to address by creating a community,” Moore said. She arrived at the University of Florida in July 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly slowed Moore’s research and her ability to train her students.

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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. While the early cultural competence research occurred in health and human services, effective policing also necessitates relating to people, earning trust, and being culturally competent. police officers.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating. They were hiring three.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After a national and international racial reckoning spurred by the killing of George Floyd in 2020, politicians have hit back hard. Army, I enrolled at the University of the District of Columbia, earned a doctorate from Harvard University, and embarked on a career in which I founded and led 20 education and human services organizations.

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Advancing the #RealCollege Movement

Believe in Students

I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. And yet, faculty are critical actors in students’ college experiences, and essential to the effort to transform higher education to a space where students are seen as humans first.

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Decolonizing the School Counseling Profession to Support Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hines According to Singh, Appling, & Trepal (2020): “The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) ask counselors to “apply knowledge of multicultural and social justice theories” (p. Dr. Erik M. Dr. Erik M.