Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. We’ve got that unique Native and non-Native environment.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For those searching for a way to unite people of all different backgrounds through inspiring storytelling … consider booking an Active Minds Speaker for your next school or community event! The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders. In the upcoming 2024 election , more than 20,000 school board seats will be up for grabs, coinciding with the presidential race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. Dr. Jessica T. I look forward to helping continue this legacy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. Multicultural curriculum and instruction enhance racial and ethnic pride, along with relationships among students from different backgrounds. In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

Topics and people that they want their children to learn about are not taught in the curriculum (e.g., content, books events, topics, issues). I have written extensively about cultureblind curriculum and its myriad of problems. Family engagement efforts often take on an assimilation function.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

She often played music by Bob Marley, and we read poetry books by Shel Silverstein (i.e., I responded to the challenge and read the book. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness. and Rosa Parks. A Light in the Attic, Falling Up ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Finally, faculty from both sectors can collaborate on curriculum development to ensure that DEI principles are integrated into the learning experience from day one. Second, they can share resources for DEI initiatives, pooling knowledge, and expertise to create a cohesive approach across higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Traci Morris, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has worked with Native American tribes, tribal businesses as well as artists and non-profits; she has also written a college-accredited curriculum in Native American new media and has advocated for digital inclusion on Capitol Hill and before the Federal Communications Commission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

People sat outside on blankets, chatting or reading books. 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. Louis, Missouri. The buildings were regal. The work of both Ms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Regardless of an instructor's talent or the allure of a dynamic curriculum, success hinges not solely on external factors, but also on the learner's mindset. If one does not believe that they will be successful in a math class, then they can be defeated before they even begin.

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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. This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She and other Black women faculty members recently published an edited book, Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis, in which the authors explore notions of Sisterhood among Black women as a noun and a verb. “I I am still doing my research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

They understand the impact of systems on underrepresented groups and ensure diverse viewpoints are encouraged, acknowledged, and respected.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

They began talking, and Freeman’s wife recommended that Scott read The Quest , a book that Freeman had written about his own emotional and spiritual journey, by way of a cross-country motorcycle trip with his twelve-year-old son that led to an encounter with a Native American shaman and a transformative vision quest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Through the college’s Student Equity and Achievement Program, Alvarez oversaw Otero’s redesign of classrooms, curriculum and teaching practices to make learning more inviting and inclusive. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

It is crucial for educators to anticipate the global issues ahead and create an adaptive STEM curriculum that reflects a diverse and modern student body in today’s digital age. Solongo Chuluunbaatar is an educator and researcher with a mathematics and science education background.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Below are some additional actions for higher education faculty and administrators: ● Write even more books (including for children and teens), articles, other publications and stories about Black people. We believe there is a need to elevate diverse African American experiences with intersectional social identities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. Research is clear regarding how race and racism impact us all in the United States and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Du Bois was right: education doesn’t just teach books; it’s supposed to be teaching life.” We should see our community in our curriculum,” said Stout. “Tonight, when you lay in your beds, I ask you, ATD, what is your legacy? What footprint are you leaving in the building, and what do they say about you when you exit?” asked Shegog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This experience served as the fundamental reason I focused my dissertation and first book on gifted and talented Black students who became underachievers. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant. I wanted my son to do well, so I waited. He was advanced but soon disengaged due to boredom based on lack of challenge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I ts date of 1933 notwithstanding, Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro book remains timely and timeless. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tuesday—Mental Health Counseling Wednesday—Academic Counseling Thursday—Other Personal Counseling Friday—College and Career Counseling Daily events To support each theme of the day, we’d like you to include a brief morning announcement that describes that particular part of the counseling curriculum. We’re also bringing snacks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Curriculum “Our students have diverse personal, community-based, cultural and political interests that we welcome by offering a broad range of courses in art history, anime, digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture,” said Otitigbe of Brooklyn College.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Wilkerson wrote The New York Times bestselling book, “ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ,” which was published in 2010. Her 2020 book, “ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent ,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Both texts were the subject of her keynote speech.

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COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Developed first by team members in Southern California and later expanded to Boston, the curriculum has helped students at the University of San Diego, California State University San Marcos, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

My youthful scholarship and service efforts were rewarded by admission to Yale University , where I majored in Political Science, and then Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) , where I pursued a curriculum that placed a particular emphasis on legislative advocacy.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 21, 2023

“Aja created an entire plan to teach students about ASL and to teach the students how to sign a famous children’s book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See ? The students absolutely loved it!”

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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