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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Latinx participation in the Metro College Success Program learning community increased by 25% between 2019 and 2024. Faculty mentors were encouraged to engage with mentees, which resulted in faculty having to discover which methods worked best to communicate with their students.

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Education Department Places Dozens on Leave in DEI Crackdown

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A 2019 email from the department's human resources office revealed a goal of training 400 employees through this voluntary program, encouraging staff participation as part of the agency's strategic approach to workforce diversity. The department emphasized in its communications that the leave was not for any disciplinary purpose.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Launches Inaugural Award for Institutional Effectiveness to Scale TRIO Student Support Services Practices Campus-Wide

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A landmark 2019 U.S. Hamm, associate vice-president for communications and marketing at COE via email at terrance.hamm@coenet.org or call (202) 347-7430. If they have questions, email Nicole Norfles at nicole.norfles@coenet.org. Media Inquiries For media inquiries or to arrange an interview, please contact Terrance L.

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Smithsonian Faces New Executive Order on Content Review

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The exact parameters of this oversight were not detailed in Bunch's communication. Bunch, who has led the Smithsonian since 2019 and previously served as the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, stressed that the institution would maintain its established review processes.

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NC A&T Provost Tonya Smith-Jackson Named Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark

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Her professional experience also includes engineering roles at IBM and Ericsson Mobile Communications, as well as a year-long appointment as program director in the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Human Systems Program from 2018-2019.

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Championing Student Success

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Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. from FSU in 2019 — hasn’t had trouble recruiting diverse students from all backgrounds to sign up as LAs.

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As Decision Day Looms, Colleges Try to Boost Minority Enrollment

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million students since the fall of 2019, and notable decreases in students with several under-represented backgrounds. We adjusted our communication to be focused on where the student is in the journey, instead of centering Queens,” said Adrienne Oddi, the vice president of strategic enrollment and communications.