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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Reimagining Black Male Success in Education: Moving from Marginalization to Empowerment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Research has shown that having Black teachers in classrooms significantly contributes to the holistic success of Black students (Milner IV, 2006). By focusing on the holistic development of Black male students and recognizing their potential as future leaders, we can foster an educational system that values their humanity.

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. Founded in 2006, AABHE empowers Black educators, administrators, and scholars through leadership development, networking opportunities, and advocacy for inclusive policies.

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Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When instruction includes novel, emotionally or intellectually stimulating features, students show greater attention, motivation, and cognitive performance, particularly in STEM and technical subjects (see Guo & Fryer, 2025 ; Hidi & Renninger, 2006 ). It’s a deeply human endeavor: expressive, subjective, unpredictable, and relational.

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The Persistent 'Bamboo Ceiling': AAPI Leaders Still Rare Among College Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That was the figure in 2011, for instance, and it was not significantly different in 2006 nor 25 years before the latter. Were seen as workhorses rather than show horses, says Fong, who retired last December as Vice Chancellor for Human Resources for the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District in northern California.

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Dear Black Athlete: A Moral Imperative is Rarely Enough

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, in William Rhodens Forty Million Dollar Slaves (2006), he details the economic underpinning of the integration of major league baseball, and how Negro Baseball league teams were picked apart with no teams or coaches coming to Major League Baseball intact.

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Don’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About Phones

Cal Newport

But it’s possible to choose other data points that complicate Haidt’s picture—among South Korean teens, for example, rates of depression fell between 2006 and 2018.” ” This phenomenon is, to me, a collapse in our sense of what a good life is and what it means to flourish as a human being.” We should trust it.