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Making Theater More Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” Wallace said Villada’s presence has made theater more accessible for their growing Latinx population. Diego Villada Title: Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, New College of Florida Age: 38 Education: B.S.,

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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Donna Y. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M., mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

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Scholar Who Creates Inclusive Spaces - Dr. Melva Treviño Peña

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist. international affairs, University of Nevada, Reno; M.S.,

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. The human instructor can place more emphasis on things like giving emotional support to their students, encouraging them, [and] mentoring them.” AI also has institutional implications. There are also concerns that AI tools could be biased.

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Seeking Equity in Healthcare Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamal-Eddine said she envisions spoken word poetry becoming one of several tools of humanizing critical narratives that challenge and disrupt harmful hegemonic ideologies within nursing education. “I Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine Institution: University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing Graduate Program: Ph.D.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Now, I try to give back.

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Intrigued by Bats

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of Maryland Career mentors: Claudia Coen, Irby Lovette, John Hermanson, and Dan Riskin, all at Cornell University; Brock Fenton, Western University; Jerry Wilkinson, University of Maryland; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Damien Farine Jr., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D.,

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