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Dr. Teresa Valerio Parrot, TVP Communications

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Teresa Valerio Parrot, APR, is principal of TVP Communications, where she works at the intersection of leadership and communications. She was awarded the Crystal Apple Award for Teaching Excellence by CASE, serves as a CASE Laureate, and was honored by PR News.

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Community College Faculty-Led Teaching and Learning Hubs Improve Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jaeger and Colclough began a case study that has blossomed into a full program, run by and for faculty, that’s creating peer communities, meeting regional needs, and moving the needle on student retention, persistence, and graduation rates: The North Carolina Teaching and Learning Hubs. We’re faculty led, driven, and focused.

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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. I define instructional violence as intentional and unintentional teaching/pedagogical styles and strategies that negatively affect the academic, psychological, emotional, and behavioral needs of students.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S., Dr. David Goldberg recalls that Love was hired when the department was seeking new teaching faculty with a focus on STEM. physics education, West Chester University; M.A., physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J.

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. Historically, those hired to teach at the university level complete the required studies in a given discipline. Moreover, our group was not alone in our thinking.

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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.” UM also has the Office of Native American Affairs, which facilitates communication and consultation with tribal nations to improve UM systemwide to better serve Native communities and learners. That’s beyond the financial piece.

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Black Women Navigating the Path to College Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and pursue Communications Studies. I was fortunate to meet Rosalyn Farrington, a Black feminist professor teaching in the Womens Studies Department and she introduced me to Audre Lordes The Master Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House.

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