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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. Dr. Robert T. Dr. Larry J. Dr. Tryan L.

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Alumni Influence to Facilitate Diversity Starts With a One-Dollar Donation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To facilitate and sustain positive changes in the academy, influence and pressure from both internal and external sources are necessary. It’s quite plausible that hundreds of such messages could be directed to the institutional leadership.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education. The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” Dr. Gresham D.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under the guidance and visionary leadership of our current President and CEO, Dr. Michael Lomax , ICB officially launched in 2006. It's about building strong institutions with strong leadership, sustainable financial models, and effective governance. The first is institutional excellence. That's innovative in itself.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But whats much less clear is how to facilitate, engender, or boost belonging for all students, using theory as a blueprint. University of California, Berkeleys Center for Educational Justice and Community Engagement hosts events like Women's Community Love and Leadership Dinner, LGBTQ+ Career Conference, and Feminist Film Fridays.