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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

Although nationwide efforts are necessary, we must establish local initiatives directly supporting our BIPOC teacher candidates (Kohli, 2018; Valenzuela, 2017). In January 2020, we secured $3,000 to fund the FToC Summit; however, the pandemic caused the event to go virtual. Intercultural Development Research Association.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. But he raised some concerns. Staff were everywhere.

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Research co-creation may be the key to impact

SRHE

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Funding for them may be uncertain. Its operation is one of the responsibilities of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). However the Levy does not fund Degree Apprenticeships.