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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He served in a similar capacity previously as associate director of policy and government relations at The Education Trust — West, the California-based office of the national educational equity advocacy group, Ed Trust headquartered in Washington, D.C. He’s a great asset in California.” He’s a great asset in California.”

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Community Colleges’ Essential Role in Workforce Development

Timely MD

The $500 million Good Jobs Challenge from the EDA is a great example of how strategic partnerships can support workforce development and create opportunities while promoting equity and diversity. And, over 70% of Black and Native American community college students and two-thirds of Latinx students are low-income students.

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Test-optional admission during the pandemic and implications for college selectivity and enrollment

NACAC's Admitted

Motivations for this movement included inequitable patterns in test taking, test preparation, and test scores that systematically disadvantaged racially minoritized and low-income students in the admission process. Dominique J.

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How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

School & Student Services by Community Brands

Teachers can participate in coaching to further their own Giving Tuesday goals of accelerating equity in your district. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level.

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Honoring a Father's Diversity Legacy in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Very few students who were in remedial courses made it to a freshman or sophomore course.