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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

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The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states. Some states have undertaken efforts to embed success skill development in educational experiences like work-based learning and course curriculum as well as through micro-credentialing and certificate programs.

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Dr. Carol Geary Schneider

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higher education; it is working with hundreds of colleges and universities and numerous state systems to expand the benefits of liberal education across the entire curriculum, through new integration between the core outlines of liberal education and student learning in their major fields.

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

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gifted and talented); conversely, they are significantly overrepresented in special education, and in-school discipline and suspension rates (Ford & Moore, 2013; Hines et al., Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., 2021; Reeves, 2022; Villavicencio, 2023). in order to be successful in college.

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More than a Century of Black Girl Magic

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When Cashawn Thompson coined the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic in 2013, she lovingly acknowledged the beauty, labor, daring, and complexity of Black girls and women. To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

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jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. Our third move is to pay attention to the media type used (PowerPoint, YouTube, Twitter [now X], TikTok, etc.).

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Deborah W. Martinez

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She is co-author of numerous publications on topics ranging from geriatric cardiology to curriculum development.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Due to the program’s success and the employment rates of students who participated in the translation certificate program, in 2013 additional faculty was hired, which allowed for the development of the interpreting certificate and the major in Spanish Translation and Interpreting.

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