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. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Despite these promising prospects, it is crucial to acknowledge that the rapid progress in technology and related fields may not be accompanied by equity unless intentional efforts are made. Students frequently criticize key math courses for being overly abstract and disconnected from reality.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And the diversity that New-York Historical wants to foster and accommodate goes beyond race, Paley said, which is reflected in the course curriculum. The program also offers non-traditional students an accessible and affordable pathway into the field, Puras said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

It is a systemic crisis that impacts student outcomes and educational equity. Dr. Rhonda Jeter The shortage of Black male teachers can be attributed to various systemic barriers, including fewer career incentives and limited access to professional development.

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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

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. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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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. Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses. Community engagement requires a holistic and campus-wide approach.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have come under attack, I wonder if higher education leaders shouldn’t begin to evolve the concept before policymakers strip away every tool we have to provide supports for students of color. Instead of focusing on inclusion, perhaps we should be talking about integration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Harvard University, founded in 1646, existed to educate white male landowners (and their progeny) in a classical curriculum focusing heavily on ethics, politics, and religion. Black Americans slowly gained access to higher education, with Alexander Twilight credited as the first Black man to receive a bachelor’s degree in 1823.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Leading Well curriculum is shared with students who want to make transformative change alongside their principals. By investing in the professional development of educators, CBCE is working to ensure that all children have access to high-quality education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

In each school my white peers saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, their history was presented every day within the classroom and in the library, administrative offices, and even in the halls of the school. Because of DEI, before it was a thing , I had access to resources and networks as my peers. They saw all of me (i.e.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. It also means having access to resources and support services that can help them succeed. As part of the ongoing battle, Texas Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The first Black woman in the position, she revamped the admissions process to make it more holistic, decreasing the emphasis on GPAs and GREs and adding opportunities for applicants to show their compassion, commitment to health equity, and how their life experiences had shaped them. What are we teaching? How are we teaching it?

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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. “With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. Francis College. We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

She shares her perspective on the challenges and triumphs of desegregation, as well as the ongoing fight for educational equity. White is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the inaugural Education Fellow for Equity Access and Opportunity with the NAACP. Board of Education case. Dr. Ashley L.

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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 For her efforts, Rahming recently received the O∆K Community Commitment Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity by the honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa. My goal is to have the LAs look like the students in the courses,” says Rahming. This is praxis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They decry a “woke” curriculum, without defining the term so that it seemingly covers a range of potential subjects they prefer not to have examined, extending all the way from racism, sexism, antisemitism, and homophobia to climate change and environmental justice. Dr. William B. Harvey is a veteran higher education leader.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Further, school counselors must be trained in using an equity-based lens to help students of color explore various career options and postsecondary opportunities in preparation to enter a global, diverse, and technological workforce. Equity-based career development and postsecondary transitions: An American imperative. Fletcher Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. Similarly, educators become aware of the impact of colonialism on grading practices and strive for fairness and equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life. When campuses make these changes to the physical space, it makes things more accessible for all,” she said. Jon Edelman can be reached at JEdelman@DiverseEducation.com.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The learners shared what they’ve learned from their time at the conference, how their community college experiences transformed them, and what community colleges must still do to improve and expand access and opportunities for all. We should see our community in our curriculum,” said Stout. Thank you, everybody, for that.” Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. The professors come to the students for much of the face-to-face learning, thus making this program highly accessible to working adults. Some distinct program features include: 1. in community college leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Curriculum and co-curricular materials should be reviewed with an eye toward diversity, inclusivity, and equity so that all people see themselves represented. Double Down on Mental Health Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And diversity includes clearly includes diluting it to the point where there is equity." The Center of Academic Excellence program is designed to ensure that institutions of higher education, their curriculum and their studies are aligned to, what are effectively, best practices in the area of cybersecurity."

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APRIL 7, 2023

The project aims to provide guidance and insights for colleges and universities seeking to create effective and sustainable career development programs that promote equity and opportunity for historically marginalized learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Ebony and Ivy details how race-based mindsets and slavery were foundational in the creation, development, and intellectual status quo of the pioneering institutions of higher learning, where institutionalized racism became embedded as part of the curriculum. Dr. William B.

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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. At Waubonsee Community College — an Hispanic-Serving Institution in the western suburbs of Chicago — students now have access to a Latinx Resource Center, a success coaching program, and streamlined pathways to earning degrees and credentials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. In terms of student mobility, there wasn’t much equity to start with,” said Dr. Philip G. Rutgers was one of the many schools that broadened access using technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

The end result, " Microcredentials and the Master’s Degree " dives into a number of questions surrounding the emerging field of microcredentials, including their purpose, legitimacy, and equity. of surveyed programs using the former and 2.3% using the latter, according to Linton.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

His first job after completing his bachelor’s was at a community college in Wyoming, fueling his deep appreciation for the access to higher education that community colleges provide. He said several faculty members took the lead on classroom redesign, including some classrooms having different seating arrangements. Adjustments were made.

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