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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education. of students enrolled in colleges and universities.

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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I love seeing my feed blow up w/ the news that numerous research proposals adopting critical & intersectional approaches to advancing justice in math & STEM higher ed were accepted as presentations during the 2024 @AERA_EdResearch Annual Mtg in Philadelphia. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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New Video Series Showcases Research on Black Males Navigating and Succeeding in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I am determined to guide educators in becoming culturally competent professionals for Black males in p-12 and higher education. Middleton : My first encounter with test bias was in elementary school. I recall taking the test, and being included in the group of “gifted” children who were exposed to higher levels of reading and math.

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Scholar Looks to Ease the Burden of Racial Opportunity Costs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As Chambers refined the theor y and published paper after paper about students who suffered in some of the same ways that she had , she climb ed higher in academia than she would have ever imagined, becoming a full professor and associate dean for equity and inclusion at Michigan State University. She teaches at Carleton every summer.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Falling in love with the work of the professoriate While becoming a dean of a college of education was an early aspiration, that career trajectory took a detour once Jackson joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison some 22 years ago. “I It was like, ‘Who was hiding this from everyone?'” I gave up.

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