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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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. They were hiring three.

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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

I know there are students out there that could definitely succeed, they just need the resources. Recognizing the limitations of having these subjects as a standalone curriculum, Witcher Walker spearheaded efforts to integrate them directly into the core medical education framework.

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Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

The need for all students to not only learn African American studies, but for them to learn a fully inclusive history of our country should be our goal. Schools/colleges of education must restructure their teacher training to be more inclusive of African American studies and antiracist pedagogy. This must be challenged.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

When she arrived at Mary Baldwin, her vision included getting to know the community, elevating existing programs, and supporting the school’s diversity and inclusivity. Diversity and inclusivity are priorities for Fox. Some of the didactic and professional curriculum were flipped. Fox describes herself as an idea generator.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. Attempts to develop an accurate definition and measure of "intelligence" have been fraught with difficulty and controversy. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant. Dr. Edward C.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Dr. Mark Henderson Henderson says the measure definitely influenced the enrollment of “historically excluded groups.” We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.” Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. Dr. David A.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Visualization based on definitions of positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress from the US National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. However, at chronic and severe levels, stress can become maladaptive and lead to reduced performance outcomes, including in postsecondary learning environments. . 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Improve your program review process with these 4 data tips

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MAY 25, 2023

Dr. Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. Now more than ever, institutions feel pressure to execute these kinds of processes.

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. While important, “the work” goes deeper than putting Black faces and voices in your curriculum.

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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. Bernal, chief of staff to the president and vice president for inclusion and equity.

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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Answering the Call

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The McKesson Foundation believes increasing diverse representation among pharmacists, training all pharmacists in inclusivity and regularly engaging with communities can help reduce healthcare disparities,” says Melissa Thompson, president of the McKesson Foundation and vice president of philanthropic giving.

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The House Antisemitism Staff Report is a Scare Tactic not a Solution for Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

is to embarrass elite institutions by calling out a few examples that, while definitely do need to be addressed, dont always tell the full picture. However, what the newly released House Antisemitism Staff Report demonstrates is that is not the path on which they are being led.

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

Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

Why We Must Teach African American Studies: A Call to Action

Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Bringing Greater Impact

Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Improve your program review process with these 4 data tips

Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Leading From the Intersection

Answering the Call

The House Antisemitism Staff Report is a Scare Tactic not a Solution for Student Success

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