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Hope Barnes When I, Hope Barnes, started teaching at the age of 22 in Baltimore, Maryland, I was excited and eager to shape and mold the minds of the future. Our students faced poverty, gun violence, drug wars, and an atmosphere of despair and hopelessness. Without much context for this new city and community, it was a culture shock.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Coastline College is now offering a program to help teach faculty about the complexities and nuances of the Vietnam War. The goal is to help faculty create curricular materials for humanities courses and provide veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. The program will run Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. The whole ‘WOKE’ bill says if you teach African American history to people, it will make them feel guilty and, therefore, you can’t teach it,” said Alexander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2025

The report, Increasing Student Support and Success by Boosting Medicaid Engagement, draws on data collected from a review of over 1,000 community colleges. There are growing mental health concerns among college students and an increase in demand for all student health services among community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. There is a vast movement of white nationalism in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

My response included a statement that if offered the job, I would be willing to get into a dunk tank, sell tickets for student scholarships, and challenge my colleagues to join me in the activity. They plan out programs and activities to build community and extended family for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Hyuns determination to include the human-being in transportation engineering makes her scholarship stand out, says Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, professor of civil engineering, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and past president at UTA. We collaborate by looking at the same transportation problems in different ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I really enjoy meeting and collaborating with colleagues from across the campus, and it just gave me a much larger enterprise view of how education works and operates to support faculty, staff and students, she says. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. With this Mellon-supported initiative, we aim to have a major impact on the key work of Wayne State: research, teaching, community engagement, and student success,” said Dr. M.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Mendocino College has achieved the highest percentage of Native American students among all California Community Colleges, The Ukiah Daily Journal reported.

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JUNE 24, 2024

The center provides services that students need, such as a childcare center, a food pantry, clothing distribution, and social workers on staff. We went around the state and started teaching persons in non-traditional areas that college is a possibility and these are the things you need to do,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. Congrats, colleagues!” Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. 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). In searching the shelves, I came across Dr. James A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. I adore this human, who started life at barely 4 lbs and has emerged into a thoughtful, sensitive man with a love for soccer and his long-term girlfriend.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

In a few short weeks, fall term will be upon us and millions of students will flood classrooms. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab It's incredibly hard to meet students where they are and effectively teach and support them without a sense of their basic needs. Department of Education confirmed that 8% of students experiences homelessness.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Georgia State University has launched a teacher prep and retention program to help ensure students in metro Atlanta school districts receive stable, qualified classroom instruction. The program is made possible by funding from Georgia State, the four partner school districts, federal- and state-level TEACH Grants and The Goizueta Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Unionization efforts among higher ed student workers have risen immensely, amid an ongoing downward trend in overall workforce union density – the percentage of union members in the workforce, according to a new report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. workers continues to fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many educators come to the profession because they have a passion and commitment to help students succeed. However, the complexities of education often get in the way of successfully advocating for Black students in a way that is impactful and transformative. Dr. Donna Y. Dr. Erik M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions. Dr. Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. Dr. Joseph F. Dr. Vaughn A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

Appleman, who often uses video in her teaching, was prevented from bringing discs into a prison because officials said that they could be used to smuggle in drugs. Incarcerated students often don’t have much chance to use essential educational tools that people on the outside take for granted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly slowed Moore’s research and her ability to train her students. This granted me more time to spend connecting internationally and nationally, where I had not previously considered those networks,” said Moore, who teaches junior and senior undergraduates and first and second-year graduate students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. The students keep me hopeful. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. On last Friday, it was all about the students. Faculty and staff at DCCC embraced him, Shegog said, seeing him as a human first and foremost, asking him to share who he was, his past, and his dreams. asked Shegog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Without Ayo Sekai’s vision and leadership, the world’s readers would miss essential content for the future of human civilization.” Sekai said work over the past two decades has solidified UWP's role in safeguarding knowledge and advocating for the essence of education and Black excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

The Pathways to Teaching program will give eligible West Windsor-Plainsboro Service Association (WWPSA) employees tuition assistance to complete a bachelor’s degree and/or a teaching certificate. We’re proud of the long-term investment that both Rider and West Windsor-Plainsboro are making in the teaching profession as a whole.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At The Ohio State University, I teach a course by this title in the College of Education and Human Ecology. Students of all ages and from all racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are accurately informed; they are empowered; and they have agency in developmentally appropriate ways.

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JUNE 27, 2024

We talk about Catholic social teaching, how we relate to each other and the world, and we look at things with the promise of justice,” says De Vinne, adding that she considers her college an “historical” women’s college, to honor their original mission. It’s her faith and her Ursuline heritage of human dignity that resonates, he adds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said. Champlain’s education model is designed to get students “ready for work, ready for life, ready to make a difference,” Hernandez said.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Pass this on to your students and prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing rather than trying to instill a strict work ethic. His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. The students keep me hopeful. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As colleges and universities nationwide welcome a new cohort of students, the beginning of a new academic year generates a sense of anticipation. This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. counting publications, citations, teaching ratings) are often based on self-justifying yardsticks. Moreno at al.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

This urgent call for change ends with recommendations for preK-12 educators to be pro-Black, anti-racist, culturally responsive advocates for these young Black students who are under their care. Empathy and care are the foundations of affirming Black students! Both are misconstrued as being tough and aloof. RESPONSIBILITY. AGGRESSiON.

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