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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, Modernizing California Community College Funding: Reforming the Fifty Percent Law to Support Student Success," argues that the 1961 law requiring California's community colleges to spend at least half of their general funds on direct classroom instruction is outdated and prevents colleges from adequately funding critical student support (..)

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California Community College Professors Sue, Alleging New DEI Rules Violate First Amendment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They also threaten promotions and tenure pursuits by potentially punishing faculty for not following the state’s definitions of DEI, the suit alleges. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said. I’m a professor of chemistry.

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Landscape Review Finds More Questions in Link Between Higher Ed and Civic Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is another hole in civic engagement research: a lack of real consensus around the definition of civic or community engagement. For Hulbert, this lack of singular definition makes research that much harder. “We Dr. Ioana G. Hulbert, researcher at Ithaka S+R. It’s very widespread,” said Hulbert. “A

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The visceral response from this faculty participant captivated me; in this moment, I knew there was definitely “a missing piece [peace].” Thus, it would seem more than appropriate, at minimum, to assess and examine our current practices, including who performs one of our most essential functions [instruction].

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like the simple, straightforward definition of engagement set forth by the Connecticut State Department of Education : “Family engagement is a full, equal, and equitable partnership among families, educators, and community partners to promote children’s learning from birth through college and career.”

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” Dr. Vaughn A.

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