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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cultural competence education and training offered at community colleges’ police academies are essential to prepare new officers to communicate across cultures. Positive engagement with community members 4. Surprisingly, understanding behavioral health needs and communication was identified, but sparsely.

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An Activist-Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Professor, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., mass communication, Indiana University; and Ph.D., I was very excited to step in[to] a leadership position like this, and I love it.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Research shows that having role models of the same race and ethnicity with whom you identify directly correlates and contributes to pursuit of and achievement in academic and professional endeavors,” says Kelly Grossman, communications and development manager at HISPA.

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Higher Ed Stakeholders Look to Socioeconomic Status as Alternative to Race in Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Davis Scale, developed at the University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) in 2012, is a system used to establish an adversity score for each candidate. So, we’ll be looking forward and hoping that many institutions do some work to make sure that they communicate to students that all students are welcomed and valued on their campus.”

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are three core areas that institutions are asked to demonstrate to qualify to receive the Seal: (1) data, (2) practice, and (3) leadership. Leadership strategies must clearly demonstrate that there is an intentional focus on Latino student success at the institutional level. Dr. Erika D. Beck CSUN President Dr. Erika D.

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Why Data Quality Matters & 5 Steps to Improve It

Civitas Learning

As Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) worked to improve retention rates, it recognized that faculty and staff needed a centralized location to communicate and access student data easily. Their data-driven student support ecosystem has led to significant improvements in retention, with a 16% increase from 2012 to 2022.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

But successful adoption of new technologies requires more than just the technology itself—it also requires the necessary leadership to set a clear vision for analytics and data in the organization, and sufficiently qualified staff to execute upon this vision. Executive leadership. ETL specialists.