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Rolita Flores Ezeonu

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Ezeonu previously served as where Vice President of Instruction at Green River College from July 2018 through February 2025. During her time there, she led full-time and adjunct faculty recruitment, development, retention and evaluation, curriculum and instruction.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Our comprehensive strategy emphasizes culturally relevant curriculum, robust community connections and clear pathways to success—crucial for nurturing a sense of belonging and enhancing academic persistence. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%.

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USC Professor Defends DEI Programs in Congressional Testimony

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Curriculum concerns : Interviews with students, including conservatives, have not supported claims that "wokeness" pervades college curriculums. Citing FBI data, he noted that between 2018 and 2022, Jewish people were targets of 78.4% Additionally, 75% of campus management positions are held by white professionals. of employees.

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Outrage Continues Over University of Florida's Removal of DEI Roles

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Go look at a curriculum. A look at UF’s publicly available data shows that the number of Black or African American students at UF has decreased since 2018, the year that UF hired its first CDO , despite an increasing overall number of students. When I hear that, I'm thinking the 1950s. Go look at the faculty and staff.

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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. Some distinct program features include: 1.

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For the Common Good

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Programming Capella University, which delivers most of its educational content online, launched its bachelor’s degree program in public health in 2018. His role in the creation of the new major has been developing curriculum, course content and rubrics. Dr. Lisa Kreeger The bachelor’s degree in public health at St.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready. math, science, English), employability skills (e.g., collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, work ethic), technical skills (e.g., internships). Warren, N., &