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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012).

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Representation Matters

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Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Courses were developed by various faculty members as far back as 2012, but the process stalled for several years until White stepped up and took the reins. “We

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

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Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). She was integral in launching Macaulay at John Jay in 2012, serving three years as the program director. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system.

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

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They can be used in the classroom as subjects to challenge stereotypical depictions by centering experiences, ideas, and concepts that are often marginalized in traditional curriculum. This scholarship focuses on historical understandings of how race and gender influenced the creation of the current Black man in collegiate identity.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes.

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How Fly-Ins Impact Diversity in the Michigan Ross BBA Program

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I oversee our efforts, and I've been with Greenlight since we launched in 2012. I always think that having scholarships is really a good component for these applicants and students. That scholarships is a big component for students, so really trying to work with your scholarship team to see if that's something.

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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. “I The value of teamwork Dr. Antonio R.