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Over 100 Organizations Urge Congress to Reverse Federal Education Grant Cancellations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students who are only months away from becoming fully licensed teachers have suddenly lost scholarships and paid internships that made their career path possible. Michigan lost TQP grants focused on addressing teacher shortages and improving literacy instruction.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. Currently, 60.1%

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., Dr. Donna Y.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. With an eye toward longevity, he also plans to teach criminology/criminal justice from, as he puts it, “the pedagogical lens of a directly impacted person.”

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Critical digital literacies, agency and hope

Catherine Cronin

At the start of this summer, I gave a keynote at the annual AMICAL Conference titled ‘Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times’ Yesterday, AMICAL kindly posted the videos from the conference, so I am sharing links to the keynote and to the conference here. AMICAL Conference 2022.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Also, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program connects students with faculty in their field of study. “A

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