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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Interestingly, at the Community College of Aurora, over 40% of our learners identify as adult learners.

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Demotion of USC Administrator Leads to Accusations of Racism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. The author of this article completed a study of the benefits of this unique program at College of the Desert and on the graduate students enrolled in the program. Some distinct program features include: 1. in community college leadership.

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Transferring to High School? Remember the Five Cs

Counselors' Corner

Curriculum Most of the people on hiring committees don’t know that, just like there’s a math curriculum and an English curriculum, high schools are supposed to have a counseling curriculum. View this article and its links, and get a copy of the high school’s profile, which should show where students attend college.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Along with the assistantship, the graduate students are also offered research skills and writing workshops, peer group experiences, application support, and the chance to present their research at an annual research competition. It’s not one-size-fits-all,” says Espiritu. “We

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The AP Program: The Good News and the Bad News

College Planners of America

In an article in Atlantic Magazine , he said, “ Fraudulent schemes come in all shapes and sizes. Both perspectives are valid: AP courses can help applicants gain admission to colleges and often save on tuition as well; AP courses are difficult and are an imperfect way to gain knowledge about a college subject. and Canada.