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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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