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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” The program has three areas of interest.

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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. Jackson is a Life Member Emerita of the MIT Corporation (MIT’s board of trustees).

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We You can use those strategies anywhere.”

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Black women are missing from feminist scholarship and we’re also missing from African American scholarship because those tend to focus on White women and Black men.

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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For her part, Rahming, a native of The Bahamas, has not abandoned her scholarship. I continue to function in that scholarly/research world,” says Rahming, who earned a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of St. I am still doing my research. Thomas in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hughes Because I claim antiracism scholarship and practice antiracism in every space where I am present, I am often questioned and challenged. Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled.