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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Recruits develop cognitive skills that facilitate trust, legitimacy, and policing practices. Cultural competence education and training offered at community colleges’ police academies are essential to prepare new officers to communicate across cultures. Positive engagement with community members 4.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. Some distinct program features include: 1.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, the council is designed to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families and caregivers. How they are viewed is communicated loudly and clearly, and contributes to families feeling disempowered and discouraged about physically coming to school events and meetings.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In short, the syllabus helps to create a structured and organized learning environment, facilitating effective communication and expectations between instructors and students. The university’s alternative assessment options and statements around grade appeals and academic integrity should be communicated in this section.

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The Profound Significance of Humility

Steve Keating

That was not part of our curriculum at the time but we constantly added new topics so I asked around if any of my colleagues had that topic in their arsenal of courses. Humility allows us to let go of the need to be right all the time, fostering effective communication and conflict resolution. Humility facilitates personal growth.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In

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