Remove 2017 Remove Curriculum Remove Scholarship
article thumbnail

Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. At DFC, every student gets a scholarship of some amount, and the average student cost is under $3,000. Hall, who is graduating this week, got a scholarship to study for her bachelor’s at St. How has the college pulled this off?

article thumbnail

Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. curriculum and instruction, and assessment). In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020). Strassfeld, N.,

Education 312
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). Launched as a pilot program in 2017, Byrne is working to find funding to scale the program to a more substantial size. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system.

article thumbnail

Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It for students who entered in 2017. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. Watford says. That rose to 61.2%

Mentoring 290
article thumbnail

Just Knowledge: my GO-GN Fellowship project

Catherine Cronin

ATU’s Centre for Sustainability aims to “embed sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core guiding principles across all activities” in ATU with a particular focus on curriculum, campus management and operations, community engagement, collaborative research and culture. GO-GN Workshop 2017, Cape Town.

Equity 52
article thumbnail

2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams became the first African American female AD at a Power 5 conference school in 2017. When she assumed the presidency of Prairie View in 2017, she thought her stay would be brief, but she was determined to address issues that the university faced, including financial support for students and financial security of the university.