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Webinar: How to Build Culturally Validating and Affirming Relationships Between Educators and Students

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Building culturally validating and affirming relationships between teachers and students requires plenty of understanding, engagement, changes in behavior, and introspection, according to a webinar held Tuesday by the Equity Assistance Center-South. The perpetrator can then request to meet, apologize, and commit to improving.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

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Xavier University of Louisiana, an historically Black university (or HBCU) in New Orleans and top graduator of Black students who pursue medical degrees and doctorates in the health sciences, is partnering with Ochsner Health, the area’s leading medical training center, to open Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM). Reynold Verret. “If

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Retired Navy Vice Admiral to Lead Texas Southern

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Crawford served nearly two years as president Felician University, where he oversaw the completion of the Wellness and Recreation Center and other large capital projects, as well as the creation of the STEM Center in Kirby Hall on the Lodi campus. He served under six U.S. Gates and Leon Panetta.

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Report Examines Massive Overhaul of Student Loan Servicing System

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A new National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) report analyzes a Unified Servicing and Data Solution (USDS) contract, set to go live in the spring, and its potential impact on student loan borrowers’ rights and experiences. Alpha Taylor The U.S.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University, Alleges Trademark Infringement

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and the family trust – claims that the school is misappropriating the name and image of Falwell Sr., s handwriting and a hologram of the man, and also intends to create a Jerry Falwell campus welcome center for future students, the suit claims. Former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell Jr. Falwell Sr.’s

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Report: Reading and Math Skills of 13-Year-Olds See Decline

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Reading and mathematics skills of 13-year-olds have declined, according to findings from The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)’s NAEP long-term trend (LTT) reading and math assessments.

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Mitchell Hamline School of Law Names New President

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from Georgetown University Law Center. She spent 11 years as a professor and administrator at Charlotte School of Law, where she taught various health law and trusts and estates courses, and Wake Forest University School of Law, where she taught in the online Master of Legal Studies program. “We