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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamentally, the police are responsible for understanding the culture, history, and issues affecting the communities they serve. As noted by Dennis (2020), community colleges in the U.S. Together, community colleges and professional policing lead the way for new police officers’ cultural competence.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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After earning tenure, Byrne began taking on administrative roles, one which notably put her in direct contact with Macaulay Honors College. She was integral in launching Macaulay at John Jay in 2012, serving three years as the program director.

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Examples of Excelencia

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Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

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Curriculum “Our students have diverse personal, community-based, cultural and political interests that we welcome by offering a broad range of courses in art history, anime, digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture,” said Otitigbe of Brooklyn College.

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Emphasizing 'Purpose' Among Leadership Facing Diversity Challenges

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Cheryl Crazy Bull has been president and CEO of the Denver, Colorado-based American Indian College Fund since 2012, and she previously served as a president and a vice president of two tribal colleges, so she has seen the higher ed landscape for indigenous students change over the years.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Chapter 9: Harris, P.C. Byrd, J. ,

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The Critical Race Theory Debate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oklahoma City Community College cancelled a fully enrolled sociology class about ethnicity and race, and two professors at the University of Central Florida scrapped courses focusing on racial concepts, leaving the institutions with no sociology classes this fall centered primarily around race. In January, Florida Gov.