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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. It’s instructive to understand how our collective efforts brought us to this point. They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. This election offers an important opportunity to do just that.

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Grassroots Push for Computer Science Education Gears Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. In higher education, being adept in the usage of educational technology has not generally been a prerequisite for the instructional workforce.

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University of Miami Computer Science Student Fuels “Accelerate Tech” Pilot Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Davenport, a freshman computer science major from Washington Township, New Jersey is the first facilitator for a new computer science “Accelerate Tech” pilot program that has been incorporated into the Saturday school programming at Earlington Heights Elementary School. Not everyone knows or understands that.

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Inspiring Tech On-Ramps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Athletic competition often prompts players to spend extra hours working on their craft, strategize with teammates to improve their performance, receive dedicated instruction and encouragement from coaches who have a vested interest in their success, figure out how to solve complex problems, and perform under the pressure of enthusiastic audiences.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, the council is designed to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families and caregivers. instruction, teaching styles, learning styles). Department of Education created the “ National Parents and Families Engagement Council to Help Ensure recovery Efforts Meet Students’ Needs.”

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If institutions can minimize the number of days that students must come to campus and offer virtual instruction at other times, it makes it easier and less expensive to find childcare and lowers a major barrier to enrollment. What institutions can control is program structure. Are our programs stackable and focused toward career progression?