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From Classrooms to Ballots: Unpacking the Significance of School Boards in the 2024 Elections

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders. Collaborative and widespread efforts are necessary to combat these challenges effectively. That reality must be changed today, given the immense power local school boards hold.

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If You Think You’re Too Small to Make a Difference, You Haven’t Spent the Night with a Mosquito

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So, how can these institutions collaborate more intentionally? Finally, faculty from both sectors can collaborate on curriculum development to ensure that DEI principles are integrated into the learning experience from day one. This partnership between community colleges and universities is not merely beneficialits vital.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Whether intentional or unintentional, the lack of or inadequate collaborations have negative consequences for Black and other marginalized students. Topics and people that they want their children to learn about are not taught in the curriculum (e.g., content, books events, topics, issues).

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Natural Allies: How Diversity Leaders and Community Engagement Leaders Build Democracy Together

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Bobbie Laur As partners in student success, community engagement leaders and diversity leaders collaborate with colleagues across the campus to create K-12 partnerships that center college access and success–often in communities and neighborhoods historically underrepresented in higher education.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Moreover, school counselors are in a position to impact the academic achievement of students of color, as well as contribute to closing opportunity gaps through collaboration with other school personnel and using data-driven approaches. I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to more than 30 academic and certificate programs, there are bachelor’s degree programs offered in collaboration with Colorado University, Denver. His sense of curiosity drives his staff crazy, he said, because he’s always reading articles and books that he shares with them.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We learn to listen to other people, communicate, collaborate, engage with multiple perspectives and…invest in understanding the experiences outside of our own.” Tesman, professor and department chair for the theater department at Brooklyn College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). “We Dr. Gregory A.

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