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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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Young to Head-up FAMU Center for African and African American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The funding supports faculty and student fellowship programs, undergraduate and graduate student research, learning communities for curriculum development and course enhancements, and cultural programming.

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CUNY Graduate Center Selects 65 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Doctoral and Faculty Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fellows – 20 CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student fellows and 45 faculty fellows – will be affiliated with CUNY’s BRES Collaboration Hub and will do research and create curricula to improve Black, race, and ethnic studies at CUNY. Faculty fellows get $2,000 stipends for research and curriculum development projects.

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Missouri State Announces Its 12th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Richard "Biff" Williams “I’m humbled by the honor and excited by the opportunity to lead Missouri State University toward a future where innovation, collaboration, and excellence define our educational journey,” said Williams, who becomes the university’s 12th president.

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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It found that the most sought-after skills across industries were consistent in academic and business studies: communication, oral, and written; teamwork and collaboration; and problem solving and critical thinking. “At However, the report explained there is little evidence of coordination between secondary and postsecondary institutions.

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Teacher-Run Organization Seeks to Educate Students on Historical Resistance Efforts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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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., I have written extensively about cultureblind curriculum and its myriad of problems.