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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. And there are plenty of clues to the nature of that curriculum.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s about developing new and exciting collaborations that break down barriers between industries and sectors to seize upon common interests, goals and complementary capabilities. Social media is also a way to express appreciation for colleagues and collaborators. Research activity is ahead of last year.

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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 program is offered in a cohort model to encourage collaborative learning and networking.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This role requires a high level of collaboration,” he says. “My Opened earlier this year, Coe College Center for Health and Society is an interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary space for collaboration and conversation about health, wellness, environments and communities.

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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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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Newson-Horst also says collaboration across institutions is essential to advance this interdisciplinary course of inquiry and create more majors and minors at HBCUs. “We

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