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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Her goal is to provide an elite education without elitist practices that exclude communities of color and low-income people. She concluded the fellowship and joined the faculty of John Jay. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

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Currently, students are more immediately aware of the return on interest (ROI), and they want to know —up front — the lasting impact of their choices of when and how they engage in higher education. The pressure to publish is not part of the air that faculty breathe, and as a result, many are able to be more available.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations. In 1901, the Board was created in order to standardize college admissions across the United States.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This call is for both in-service practitioners and training programs in higher education in order to prepare current and future generations of practitioners to respond to the mental health needs of Black youth. recruitment, admissions, retention, milestone navigation, etc.). Mayes et al. Collaborate. link] hooks, b.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. Today I have the great privilege of bringing you a conversation with Art Coleman, one of the nation's foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education.

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Webinar: What higher education leaders need to know right now

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However, there is a lot of confusion, lack of communication, and missed opportunities as leaders attempt to address the crisis from the perspective of campus facilities, students, faculty and parents. But then, he continued, in 2003 the SARS virus hit. THIS IS THE REASON WE EXIST. What exactly is the coronavirus?

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Not Your Traditional Student: Changing Demographics on Campus

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That is what the education-to-career path has traditionally looked like — but today’s typical higher education student is just as likely to be older when they enter (or return to) university, working while in school, a parent, a first-generation student — or any combination of these. by Shelley Seale. When I enrolled at St.