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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, instead of promoting the success of culturally relevant teaching strategies, according to a report by the National Association of Educators and an Education Week article , states are conflating culturally relevant teaching practices with critical race theory and are therefore adopting laws to ban the use of this pedagogical approach.

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How Maricopa Community Colleges are Leading with Workforce-aligned Bachelor’s Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an effort to fill critical openings, some schools have reduced the criteria needed to teach, including the requirement of a traditional teaching bachelors degree. In 2020, we partnered with Intel to introduce the nations first AI and machine learning associates degree and certificate program.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Henry returned to Wisconsin in June 2020, amid the pandemic and social upheaval, but this time as a faculty member in the Leadership and Policy Analysis program. His work delves into crucial questions about retention, working conditions, and the importance of allowing Black teachers to maintain their autonomy and cultural teaching practices.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4

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What Should Schools Prioritize to Support Youth Mental Health? Priority #1: Provide More Specialized Mental Health Professionals and Paraprofessionals on Campus

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Historically, in fact, a vast majority (70-80%) of children and youth receiving mental health services received them at school (Mental Health America, 2020). Our next blog in the series will dive deeper into teaching mental health awareness to students and staff to promote wellness and psychological safety.

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the unanticipated: reflecting & looking forward

Catherine Cronin

This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ). I look forward also to keynotes at OTESSA25 and the Teaching and Learning for Societal Wellbeing conference (University of Galway). The map will be published by GTM in 2025.

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International Conference Offers Solutions-Based Outcomes to Challenges Facing Urban Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fenwick called for the removal of “past deficit perspectives and research about Black and other students of color," to create "teaching and learning environments that affirm the intellectual capacities and cultural heritages of all students.” BOLD Leadership Network, headquartered in Greenville, S.C.,

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