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

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Recruits develop cognitive skills that facilitate trust, legitimacy, and policing practices. 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.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In within six years. “We

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. These individuals incorporate the skills of several other roles, by “merging the skills of statistics, mathematics, programming, communication, and business knowledge” (8).

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Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

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My recommendation would be to continue to support these fledgling communities, celebrate them and encourage their growth recognizing that there exists serious barriers and lack of motivation to implement such change, particularly among the tenure-track faculty.

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

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predominately white institutions) known to facilitate discrimination, isolation, and marginalization. Arrangements can be made within the community or minority student organizations to create communication channels for carpools or shared rides. This may make accessing support like food banks or religious services difficult.