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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities.

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Institutions Can Help Close Widening Completion Gaps with the Postsecondary Data GPS

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Last November, the National Center for Education Statistics released the latest results from the 2012/17 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:12/17), which surveyed first-time students after their first year of higher education in 2012, and then again in 2014 and 2017.

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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. In the upcoming and final blog post, we will explore how data might be employed in practice to facilitate institutional effectiveness. Ready to learn more? Norris, D.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. The program offers a B.A. as well as two certificates—one in translation (written) and one in interpreting (spoken). The four-year graduation rate for Latino students in the major is approximately 88%. within six years. “We

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We utilize this framework to analyze the use of diverse comics and graphic novels to facilitate critical conversations of bringing inclusive visual texts into the classroom. Additionally, Black boys are viewed as older and less innocent than their peers beginning as early as 10 years old ( Goff et al.,

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

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Back in 2014, while on an NSF panel, I had heard about evidence-based teaching practices and began scouring the literature and initiating a self-motivated, voluntary change in my own classroom. We also attend AAC&U STEM conferences together and have built a real friendship.

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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.