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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. For Fall 2021, the College of the Desert’s (COD) student headcount included 8,213 Hispanic students, 1,657 white students, 395 Asian students, 252 Black students, 28 American Indian/Alaska Native students, and seven Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Island students.

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Bridging Pathways for Military-Connected Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cutting across political party lines, an overwhelming majority of Americans see veterans’ services as a priority (Schaeffer, 2021). Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Grad students serve as teaching fellows, facilitating discussion sections and grading student work. Students have risen to the challenge, with 83% having passed their courses as of spring 2021, and many reporting a broadened sense of their college possibilities.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More specifically, the council is designed to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families and caregivers. Mapp and Bergman (2021) in The Carnegie Reporter , and Good Reason Houston share several: 1. Black families are excluded from, or avoid, discussions about their children’s education.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In short, the syllabus helps to create a structured and organized learning environment, facilitating effective communication and expectations between instructors and students. Test biases must be discussed and avoided, as finally acknowledged by the American Psychological Association in 2021. Dr. tavis d.

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4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders

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During this session, I had the opportunity to facilitate small group conversations with our provosts and vice provosts, who were eager to share their own experiences with faculty burnout and any efforts they had made to combat it. University of British Columbia’s Orange Folder is a best-practice example of this type of resource.

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