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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students.

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Community College Faculty-Led Teaching and Learning Hubs Improve Student Outcomes

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In 2018, Dr. Audrey Jaeger and Dr. Monique B. Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success?

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Study: Number of Surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian Children Lower Than on White Children

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Dr. Ethan Sanford The study’s findings, published in the “ Journal of Pediatric Surgery ,” may indicate inequities in access to surgical care, but causes for the gap are not identified nor listed. The study looked at surgery data for more than 200,000 children from the 1999-2018 National Health Interview Surveys.

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Fat On Campus: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias in the Classroom

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In a 2018 article titled, "About Fat Campus" students also articulated similar experiences. Stewart, 2018, p. First, it communicates to students educators’ understanding of the systemic and structural nature of anti-fat bias. Fat bodies on and off campus deserve access to all the things non-fat bodies have.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

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In May 2018, COD’s board of trustees approved a $1 million investment to support a diverse group of 23 faculty and administrators to participate in Kansas State University’s (KSU) doctoral Community College Leadership Program (CCLP), the first cohort known colloquially as the CCLP Roadrunner cohort. in community college leadership.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

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Stukes said JCSU faculty started recording their lectures and uploading them, so if circumstances made students unable to access the lectures at a specific time, they could still view them. If lectures are recorded, students who miss a class can readily access the material, said Luoma. In 2018, St.

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Silenced Voices: Confronting Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Erasure in Academia

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8, 2018, Ms. Individuals are denied equitable access to education and coerced into relinquishing their native tongues. Students like me, who are already compelled to communicate in English in virtually all facets of daily life, find this expectation particularly burdensome.

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