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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. These include a food pantry and the basic needs food services and meal programs.

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For the Common Good

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Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” The program has three areas of interest.

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Flourishing is most often associated with creating and facilitating the environment for a person to be successful. A typical example is the institution of scholarships and funds that target Black students. While these terms are often used synonymously, they have slightly different meanings. Be able to achieve their academic goals.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

link] School principals must play a vital role in facilitating homeplace and Black joy by promoting, modeling, and holding educators responsible for their roles in contributing to homeplace. There’s No Place Like Homeplace: School Principals’ Roles in Developing Student Belonging as Resistance Against Oppression. Theory into Practice.

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How Scholarship, Service, and Experience Inform One Professor's Research

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Massey also co-facilitates the Binghamton Human Sexualities Lab with three colleagues. “One of the things I’ve been able to do is bring stories and, in some ways, convey a vividness or emotion about the times we’re talking about,” says Massey, who teaches a course in LGBTQ history.

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2022: Year in Review

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Edgar, a DEI and EEO consultant, trainer, and facilitator. “As Her scholarship changed our understanding of democracy — of why and how the voices of the historically underrepresented must be heard and what it takes to have a meaningful right to vote,” John F. On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.