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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2006) referred to this as the ‘revolving door’ problem, finding that one in every two minority hires was a replacement for a previous minority who had left the institution. Recommendations: · Expand the departmental representative point of contact’s role to include diversity/equity considerations. Moreno at al.

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Community College Student Support Program Effectiveness and Expansion Discussed at Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Matters surrounding this expansion and scalability were discussed in sessions at a a one-day symposium, Building Towards Equity in Higher Education. Founded in 2006, the program now serves almost 900 students. OMD has always thought of itself as a college support program, not a college access program,” Hallberg said.

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The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Mental Health of College Students of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Between 2006 and 2021, Black student enrollment dropped from 7% to 4% and Indigenous student enrollment dropped from 1% to 0.1%. The Steve Fund and many national experts anticipate that eliminating racial considerations in admissions will dramatically reduce the number of students of color in selective higher education institutions.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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In the first blog post in this series , I discussed the necessity of a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. For these professionals to maximize their returns, however, they must have access to adequate data resources and systems that will allow them to perform these analyses.

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

Critical approaches to open education often focus on issues related to access, equity and agency: Access arguments are foundational in every rationale for open education, i.e. how to enable access to education for all. Making resources legally accessible (e.g.