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Supporting Counselor Trainees and Practitioners in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite the profession's growing emphasis on multicultural competence, many counselor education programs and ongoing professional development systems still fall short in preparing trainees and counselors to recognize, process, and effectively address racial stress and trauma.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Department of Education Blocks Undocumented Students from Career and Technical Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education announced it will no longer allow federal funds to support career, technical, and adult education programs for undocumented students, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old policy that permitted such access. The interpretive rule, published in the Federal Register, clarifies that federal programs under the Carl D.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Literacy is really important. Nicholas Hartlep, the Robert Charles Billings Chair in Education at Berea College and a former elementary school teacher. As of 2019, 18 U.S.

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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2019, about 33% of environmental scientists and geoscientists were women, according to the American Geoscience Institute. The percentage of Black environmental scientists and geoscientists fluctuated between 1% and 7.8%, from 2005 to 2019. Gordana Vlahovic, chair of NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy.