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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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

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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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Aesthete Explores Equity in Disability Studies, Healthcare Education

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I can see her helping to devise curriculum in nursing schools to make it more inclusive and more accessible to disabled students,” said Dr. Sarah Abboud, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development Nursing Science in the UIC, College of Nursing.

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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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