Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. Harvard adopted testing in 1934 to select scholarship recipients followed by many other institutions. principles."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The institutions are combining their talents to create a 12-week certification course that will teach students how to use and sell medical devices. It goes beyond teaching concepts, and theory and procedures, they act as a mentor to help students understand how to set themselves up for success in the industry,” said Allen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. I am still doing my research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Undocumented students must navigate ever-changing state policies while searching for scholarships that include them, scrolling through university and collegiate websites for campus environments that acknowledge their unique experience. Faculty can also bring the work and stories of undocumented immigrants into their curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. They also have something they can teach, instead of having to earn money with a minimum wage job.” Since its inception, ACP has helped participants receive over $10 million in college scholarship funds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For instance, partnerships with local community organizations can provide leadership development, internships, and scholarships tailored to Latine learners, while fostering a connection to space and place and bolstering a learner’s sense of belonging. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). Working as a teaching assistant for two freshman courses sparked her desire to teach, and Howard’s change-oriented mission impacted her vision of making higher education more equitable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.” After receiving his B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

In our field of biomedical engineering there are all these aspects of hidden curriculum that we wanted to be able to address by creating a community,” Moore said. Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. It also allowed me to teach and connect with students even if it was online,” she continued.

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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. It just made me feel OK.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

See themselves reflected in the curriculum and in the faculty. This means seeing Black history and culture represented in the courses they take and the professors who teach them. A typical example is the institution of scholarships and funds that target Black students. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. • to advance anti-racism at UM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Since then, the number of scholarships has significantly increased, which has brought increased diversity. “In UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling. Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It When she completed her Ph.D., It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Lehman faculty are encouraged to look through their curriculum and pedagogy to make it more relevant to their Latinx students, in part, through Spanish-language programs and through the school’s Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. So be mindful about what you’re teaching and how you’re managing those classrooms.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

However, it can involve integrating affirming and positive Black imagery into the curriculum and classroom visuals, offering a secure space to voice their concerns and, most importantly, engaging in self-reflection to identify and address personal biases about each Black student (like Michael) and Black students overall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since then, I have focused my scholarship on college and career readiness, and STEM for Black males. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant. This epiphany also came about as I reviewed the literature related to tracking in my dissertation.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 21, 2023

Aja created an entire plan to teach students about ASL and to teach the students how to sign a famous children’s book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See ? She discovered the Scholarship America Dream Award through a scholarship search engine, and became a 2023 Midwest Dream Award Scholar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW. It’s not one-size-fits-all,” says Espiritu. “We

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

increase in student persistence—an impact greater than many traditional initiatives like advising or scholarships. Pinpoint Curricular Bottlenecks for Early Intervention When faculty leaders put their time, energy, and expertise into designing a curriculum, the last thing they want is for a course to be a barrier to graduation.

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

The prompt I used was: “Draft a letter of recommendation for a scholarship program on behalf of one of my students name John who is in my AV Club, has played boys basketball for the last 3 years, is part of our Link Crew program, works in retail on the weekends and will be attending Sonoma State University to study Psychology in the fall.”

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” My youthful scholarship and service efforts were rewarded by admission to Yale University , where I majored in Political Science, and then Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) , where I pursued a curriculum that placed a particular emphasis on legislative advocacy.

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But regardless of which classes you teach, there are plenty of ways to help your students with their college essays. Recommend Scholarships What’s more stressful than choosing a college? Speak with your school’s guidance counselors—they may have lists of available scholarships. Either way, they’ll be grateful for your help!

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 21, 2022

ATU’s Centre for Sustainability aims to “embed sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core guiding principles across all activities” in ATU with a particular focus on curriculum, campus management and operations, community engagement, collaborative research and culture. Just Knowledge project and the GO-GN network.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This scholarship focuses on historical understandings of how race and gender influenced the creation of the current Black man in collegiate identity.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I write this today as a published writer, Founder/CEO of an LLC motivational speaking company, multi-scholarship winner, national scholar, and a member of the All-Pennsylvania Academic Team. As a result of being selected to the PA Academic team, I entered West Chester University on a full-tuition scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Teaching homeplace: How teachers can cultivate Black joy through culturally responsive practices in the classroom. Ford Cultivating Black joy is critical, given censorship placed in schools, on Black bodies, and in the curriculum. This concept also argues that implementing culturally responsive teaching practices (i.e.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Even in the teaching evaluations, students talk about how their thinking has been transformed through the class. We want to create a specific mission.”

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Faculty Curriculum Communication Scholarship 264

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

His teaching, research, outreach, and service has shown his continued dedication to the work that is now more important than ever, and he has remained consistent and steadfast in his commitment to excellence.” That’s where he learned how to perfect his teaching. But I say, ‘you’re on the frontlines,’” he says. Geneva Gay and James A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Ironically, it is deemed taboo to ask higher education institutions to do better at employing research, teaching, and service as values rather than mere words in an “About Us” section. The training higher education offers to the people of our nation must be rooted in “teaching, research, and service.” Dr. Branden D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Her scholarship changed our understanding of democracy — of why and how the voices of the historically underrepresented must be heard and what it takes to have a meaningful right to vote,” John F. a prominent artist and educator who spent years teaching in the W.E.B She was 67. secretary of education, on Twitter. He was 84 years old.

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