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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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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life. She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

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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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For the Common Good

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No new courses have been introduced related to the pandemic, but Kreeger notes, “as we evaluate shifts in the COVID-19 landscape, we are planning to update curriculum to incorporate post-pandemic focus.” His role in the creation of the new major has been developing curriculum, course content and rubrics.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

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The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. Our third move is to pay attention to the media type used (PowerPoint, YouTube, Twitter [now X], TikTok, etc.).

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Bringing Greater Impact

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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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