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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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Making Math More Equitable

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.

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Investment in Math Education is Needed to Fuel the STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most strategic investments that can be made when it comes to having a well-prepared workforce for the economy of the future is in mathematics education. It is imperative to equip students with the mathematical skills necessary to navigate their chosen fields.

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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A lot of times, when students are going into mathematics, they are seeing the material for the first time and then tested on that material,” Roberson said. “If Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend. That remains a big problem for staff and faculty who still are afraid of coming out,” says Dacey, who has done extensive political work and is now an events consultant.

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UNCF Report Examines Black Teacher Pipeline, Offers Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report noted how Black teachers impact Black students’ educational development by serving as role models, improving their educational experience, improving graduation and college enrollment rates, increasing Black students’ reading and mathematics state scores, and increasing end-of-year grades. “To Report findings will be discussed Feb.

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Teacher-Researcher Crafts More Efficient Transportation Systems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dipayan Banerjee, a fifth-year doctoral student at Georgia Institute of Technology with a passion for teaching, is pursuing research that can have a societal impact regarding logistics and supply chain management as well as equity and fairness in the context of transportation. His goal after completing his Ph.D. We write up some models.

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