Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes. principles."

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And they are asking for: Accurate and accessible information about mental health. . Greater access to supportive adults with knowledge about mental health. Innovative school-based programs can give students access to the resources that they are requesting. . More platforms to talk about mental health amongst each other. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Those are the tough choices HBCU administrators are faced with every day of the week.” But despite funding complications, HBCUs put students first.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Expansion and diversity in higher education (1980s-1990s) During the 1980s and 1990s, higher education in the United States underwent transformative changes marked by a significant expansion in access and a growing emphasis on diversity. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Some are creating new programming, while others endeavor to increase access for students interested in serving the most vulnerable populations. Photo Courtesy of Dr. Examples of possible careers in the field include nursing home administrators and health quality managers, according to Ongeri. Francis College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A However, he continued to write as he engaged in more college-access experiences and roles. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebrated my history. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. Some distinct program features include: 1. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. Dr. Cathryn B. These connections enliven our questions about navigating neoliberalism in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

She was taken into an administrative office and questioned why she had applied to a major she wasn’t physically capable of doing. Jamal-Eddine explained she wouldn’t be going into bedside nursing and was well-aware there were diverse and accommodating pathways in the nursing profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now, a new report from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and UWill, an online counseling platform for colleges and universities, has shown that mental health is continuing to decline. It seems as though high-level administrators are aware. Jon Edelman can be reached at JEdelman@DiverseEducation.com.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

She was taken into an administrative office and questioned why she had applied to a major she wasn’t physically capable of doing. Jamal-Eddine explained she wouldn’t be going into bedside nursing and was well-aware there were diverse and accommodating pathways in the nursing profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

I did not see myself reflected in the curriculum, my professors, or the administration. There is a profound indignity in rarely seeing a teacher, administrator, or institutional leader that looks like you. Arriving as a freshman at a predominantly white college, I was in for a culture shock. My story is a familiar one even now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Chat GPT and other innovations that make use of artificial intelligence technologies are brought forward, faculty members and administrators throughout the academic community are appropriately raising concerns about their potential adverse effects on the higher education experience. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Dr. Lorelle Espinosa Velez hopes that faculty, administrators and policy makers at graduate schools read the report, recognize the barriers that exist for Black and Hispanic STEM PhD students and make an effort to remove those barriers. Velez said. Espinosa wants the scientific community to pay attention to these findings.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Dr. Nwosu, a lifelong advocate for equitable access and success in higher education, has also served on IHEP’s Board of Directors since February 2021 and is currently Board Chairperson. IHEP: What inspires your commitment to advancing equitable access and outcomes for students? This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Before coming to Otero, Alvarez was a senior fellow for NASPA (student affairs administrators in higher education) and a vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University. Although it was difficult to sustain a sense of community when people were working remotely, “I was still very proud of our faculty,” Alvarez said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

At FSU, the program has also worked to increase access to STEM majors. “My from FSU but has since found fulfilment as an administrator. “I I continue to function in that scholarly/research world,” says Rahming, who earned a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of St. This is praxis. Thomas in St.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 2, 2023

I appreciated the administration’s initiative for us students during that time. We switched to online instruction in my junior year of high school due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and everything changed in a blink of an eye. Along with school, all my extracurricular classes also shifted online.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Shanna Smith Jaggars, assistant vice provost and director of the Student Success Research Lab at the Ohio State University, studies have shown that online learners make strategic choices about which courses to take virtually, typically saving more challenging ones for in-person, where accessing support might be easier.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Outcomes: Results of the study sparked cross-functional strategic conversations aligning institutional policy and course curriculum to improve success throughout the student experience. Identify opportunities to improve the FYE curriculum to serve students better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness. Lack of rigor concerns low challenge, the absence of critical thinking, and less access to advanced courses. We share the goal of closing achievement, opportunity, and access gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, the syllabus speaks to the course structure, description, assessment and grading, resources, learning objectives and outcomes, and legal and administrative information. The access and accommodation statement should clearly outline the university’s policies and procedures regarding students with disabilities. Dr. tavis d.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation. math, science, English), employability skills (e.g.,

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Mental health Counseling Placement Students 305

Civitas Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

Having one place to track information accessible to those who need it outside of individual teams ensures a seamless handoff, enhancing the impact and focus of student interactions. These coaches bridge success and retention efforts, aiding students in accessing campus resources and conducting exit interviews.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

As experienced McNair program directors – Miroslava as the faculty director and Yvette as a former associate director – we understand the daunting task of unmasking the ‘hidden curriculum’ of successfully applying to graduate school. Graduate school isn’t for everyone, as Yvette often reminds her clients.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Furthermore, school counselors can help students access resources needed to achieve a well-rounded pre-K-12 school experience to be prepared for college, careers, and adulthood. We urge faculty and supervisors/administrators to be persistent, and to model decolonization in words and actions; 2.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 30, 2023

I felt especially isolated in my rural community, where conversations about mental health were nonexistent and access to care was limited. There, I created a needs assessment to research demographic disparities in my school’s mental health curriculum and presented the data to students, educators, and administration.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

As a powerful language model, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize school counseling, providing students with a more accessible and efficient way to access the support they need. Develop Curriculum Another great tool that ChatGPT provides is it can create things to support your curriculum and programming.

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