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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

School counselors can facilitate this by having Black males take career assessments such as the O’Net Interest Profiler , and ensure they are taking rigorous coursework in preparation for postsecondary options such as a college/university.

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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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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

through open licensing) is a significant move towards this, but we know that open licensing alone does not facilitate access by everyone. Making resources legally accessible (e.g. In considering such important questions, we can uncover further layers of injustice to be addressed.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

Now more than ever, Dweck’s (2006) message of a growth mindset is key to instill in our students. I’m always happy to chat about strengths, sharing resources, facilitating workshops, having coaching conversations, our CS program at UofGH, etc. CliftonStrengths is an incredible test, it opened my eyes to who I am as a person.

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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. Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. Moreno at al.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.