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Lifting As They Climb

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Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings Dr. Arnetha F. Ball, the Charles E. Dr. Joyce E.

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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

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I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

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14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. White House Honoree, Jan.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students. As the Hispanic population in the U.S.

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Building Pipelines for a Better Future

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A commitment to the work It’s that kind of commitment to equity issues that has inspired Jean, who has been at the university since 2011. “The president made it very clear that the ruling will not change our commitment to supporting underrepresented and disenfranchised students,” Jean says. Jean’s advocacy has not gone unnoticed.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps. UIC enrolls and graduates the largest number of Latino students in Illinois.

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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

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v To ensure stakeholders can answer important, equity-minded questions, policymakers should establish a student-level data network that connects data to illuminate student pathways and outcomes , especially for transfer students. Found in Dimpal, J., Herrera, A., Bernal, S., & Solorzano, D. DOI:10.1080/10668926.2011.526525.