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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners.

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Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Wins 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The rural college earned the $700,000 top prize by demonstrating exceptional student outcomes, particularly in graduation rates and economic mobility for graduates. The college has achieved these results while serving many lower-income students, showing how intentional support systems can close equity gaps in higher education.

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Report Identifies Decline in Black Male HBCU Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DJ Windsor American Institute for Boys and Men Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) experienced a drastic decline in Black student enrollment during the decade between 2010 and 2020, according to a new report from the non-partisan research group, American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM).

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We use the term and notion of resegregation in special education to describe the overrepresentation of Students of Color in special education, an issue that continues to persist today. In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020).

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Can Colleges Control Administrative Bloat?

College Planners of America

Limited in ways to grow revenue such as offering new programs or recruiting more foreign students while approaching a “demographic cliff” in the population of college-age people, all but the most elite colleges need to cut costs and lower tuition to remain viable. The ratio between faculty and administrators has shrunk.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Scott says that, like Howard, she’s deeply committed to addressing the structural barriers that stand in the way of helping students achieve. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. Her presidency, she says, will include a “heightened focus on policies,” that can aid in reinforcing change over the long haul.