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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency. Moreover, school counselors are positioned to facilitate individual and group counseling to assist with study skills, stress, anxiety, and social-emotional learning development. Dr. Erik M.

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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

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Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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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

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. On-campus enrollment is approximately 615 students. That doesn’t include FDLTCC’s college in the high school program.

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Ariella Robbins, Villanova University

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She led a partnership between the Universitys Office of Human Resources and the Villanova Initiative to Support Inclusiveness and Build Leaders to plan and facilitate Hiring for Villanovas Future training for employees serving on search committees.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

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Dozens of studies agree that sense of belonging is defined as a basicneed [and human right], a fundamental motivation, sufficient to drive behaviors and perceptions. But whats much less clear is how to facilitate, engender, or boost belonging for all students, using theory as a blueprint. J'Quen Johnson RECOMMENDATIONS: BELONGING 2.0

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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Further, · “individuals who know the world only from their own cultural perspectives are denied important parts of the human experience and are culturally and ethnically encapsulated” (p.1). 1. Again, it is baffling — how can anti-EDI supporters be opposed to rigor? To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy. Dr. Donna Y.

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