Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. If we are failing our most disenfranchised populations, we are failing in education, and we have no excuse for it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

The report offers a glimpse at the over 200 successful programs Excelencia has catalogued in its database, which is publicly available on their website, Growing What Works. This is an opportunity for institutions to take a step back and realize they do have examples for best practices they should invest in.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.” In this case, the split had everything to do with sample size.

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MARCH 24, 2024

She said that college leaders have to do a better job at “refuting assumptions about Jewish people” and to “see them in a more accurate and fair way. Aronis said that her research reveals that many Jewish students feel unsafe on their campus and also feel that they have been abandoned by DEI offices throughout the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

SkillPointe’s career pages feature information about what specific jobs entail and opportunities for students to do more in-depth career exploration and discover the training required. This conversion rate is significantly higher than what we get from our other marketing partners.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The panelists expressed gratitude and pride over being recognized for some of the diversity and equity work that they’ve been doing, work that typically does not garner widespread attention. To be able to be recognized on this level for the work that I do is really validating. My sisters and I joke that, somehow, she has an M.B.A.,

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 23, 2024

We learn at a young age that it’s not polite to talk too much about ourselves, lest we come off like a show off or a braggart. But you can do it. So how do you determine what you want to say? Fortunately the most recent Common Application prompts do a fairly good job of helping you to focus on yourself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

We began to see early on [in the pandemic] many students were not enrolling, and community colleges are largely funded on the basis of enrollment,” said Dr. Thomas Brock, director of the CCRC. What I think was really brilliant about the way the community colleges used the resources was they put students first,” said Dr. Karen A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The other most prominent opinions on college planning that the survey found were indecision (8%); that it was overwhelming (8%); that there wasn’t enough time to do it (8.8%); and that the planning process was complicated or difficult (10%). If I can’t shake off this anxiety that’s holding me back mentally, then what is the point?”

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 17, 2024

Keywords: Trauma-Sensitive, Student Behavior, Learning Design What Is Container-Setting? A container can also be defined by what “belongs” or “fits” inside (and what does not); though a cardboard box may hold water, water will ultimately destroy the box if it is not specifically manufactured to hold liquid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Panelists praised what the IRT did for them, discussing how the organization bolstered what they knew about the teaching profession, expanded their professional networks, and helped them understand key educational concepts. When we are in the classroom, when we are teaching children who look like us, our students do better,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

We have to be more effective,” said Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank focused on the future of work and the quality of life in minoritized communities. We’re hoping this summer is where we draw the line in the sand, where we push back,” said Crenshaw. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

s presence in Rochester, ACP creates education content on matters such as segregation, racism, inequity, and civil rights leaders, garnering input from local teachers, professors, and community activists to do so, said Kesha James, co-executive director for ACP. We go in and we show them the primary sources. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sara Goldrick-Rab Everyone from editorial boards to trustees to state higher education officers to congressional leaders and pundits has an opinion about what to do. None of that will work unless we first find our footing, and that requires saying the quiet parts out loud. Reasonable people will disagree over why.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Stacy Burnett What was once a small effort available to approximately 20 carceral sites has now grown its reach to be available to more than 1,000, said Stacy Burnett, senior product manager for JSTOR’s parent company, ITHAKA. It’s] not that different from what prisons consistently do with materials coming in and going out,” McGregor said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

We also need students to be supported not only in year one but throughout the entire time they are in college.” We think that the introduction of this legislation is a great next step in building additional support in Congress to deliver the funding that's needed.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sánchez, University of Southern California; and Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, Community Based Health Worker and Midwife Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Never forget why you do what you do. What can we anticipate?” We talk about building a better world, but I actually mean it,” says Agloro. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Bloom where you are planted, but go where you can grow," said Mull, who urged professionals to figure out what they want to learn before making the leap to another job. "It You were hired to do one thing, and then a law is passed that can change that, so working in higher education has become taxing."

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

By 2025, the economy will have created over 133 million jobs that do not exist today, according to the World Economic Forum. How do we prepare students for these changes? We contend that all educators should consider responsibility for students’ career education. editing, rewriting).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the new report, “Ending Unfunded Mandates in Higher Education: Using Completion-Goals Funding to Improve Accountability and Outcomes,” Complete College America (CCA) calls on states to evolve beyond performance-based funding to what they call completion-goals funding. We still need to keep pushing to get the reforms in place that work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As we reach the end of another tough year, we deserve to take a moment to be grateful and proud that times truly have changed. What else can and should we do? What constitutes scalable and effective support for students’ basic needs? What makes a college truly “hunger-free?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

Simultaneously, we have hopes and concerns about the preparation of teachers – majority white (80%) and females (77%) -- and others -- to work in anti-racist, equitable, and culturally responsive ways with Black students. Specifically, we need educators who are anti-racist, equitable, and culturally responsive. Middleton & Renae D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Only for a few short decades did we make any concerted and intentional effort to include Black Americans specifically, and students of color generally, in institutions we pretend are about meritocracy and social mobility. What lies ahead? We do not have to guess what the elimination of affirmative action will bring about.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

We start to address how the populations that we serve – and we look at the places that they live, work, play, and worship – and how they are able to thrive or sometimes just survive. We look at their race, their ethnicities, their service and access to languages, and the barriers that they face. There has to be action.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

And therefore, what happens is, we have to come to understand that trust-building has to be an intentional, well-thought out, practiced, and research behavior.” We do not want to toe the line of culturally appropriating someone else's ethnic printworks, artworks, and textiles,” she said. These all need to be authentic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

are African American men and what can be done to improve that number. While we know that they bring value to the classroom, they’re very much absent in the classroom as educators, as teachers,” said Strachan, acting chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Leadership at Alabama A&M University. We have an academic adviser.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity. companies do not have any female board members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Can we continue to reinvent our colleges and communities to be more equitable places that secure the future for another 20 years and beyond? And honesty is evident in not only what we do when we’re doing career counseling and career services work but also in how we teach our collective stories as well as our histories.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Over the past few weeks, we suddenly and unexpectedly lost two Black female college presidents. Yet, I do not care to spend my time writing this blog to regurgitate what many of us already know, experience, and live through in academia. We honor their presence by naming the legacies they leave us. We must grieve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Francesca Carpenter “ To be clear, ensuring equity requires that we disavow the one-size-fits-all approach and that we intentionally consider institutional context and capacity for engaging in equity-minded work,” the report stated. But once we look closely at what they are, then we start to ask different questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We don’t speak out as an institution on public policy unless the issues will impact our entire community in potentially significant ways,” he said. The proposals reflect questions about whether we are truly committed to differing perspectives and ideas.” We will do that, too. This is one of those moments.

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MARCH 28, 2024

If I have students living on campus in housing and they get sick, what are we going to do, say ‘go in the morning?’” Goldrick-Rab says that what began as a working relationship with Curry has evolved into a deep friendship. We need to be more intentional at saying, ‘This is our major; how does this major connect to a job?’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By offering a glimpse into Mumia Abu-Jamal’s papers , and by engaging scholars across the country in conversation, we hope to catalyze more scholarship and conversation about a topic that affects so many lives.” What the exhibition and symposium will do — and what we do in the Mass Incarceration Lab — is humanize this phenomenon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

We’ve seen what happens when a court senses that they have free rein to do whatever they want to abridge women's rights,” Lomax said. We want to make sure that we understand what these court rulings mean for us, and we want to be absolutely certain that we understand the path that we must continue to do the work,” Lomax said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) indicates that while 8,836 entering students at 40 community colleges around the country indicate that they intend to transfer to a four-year institution, the number that actually do is remarkably low. We want to make sure students are on the correct path?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Do no harm. I try to spend my days choosing love, choosing hope, choosing patience, and choosing humanity,” says Washington, adding that by doing so, he is “honoring the power of choice.” We believed very much that injustice anywhere was a threat to justice everywhere,” says Washington. And Jamie went after that person.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders] from Jackson State University. Most of those perspectives are deficit framed or accusatory and most of them do not actually call for or leave much room for nuance. In 2021 Harold Love Jr.

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