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AccessLex Provides Update to Legal Education Data Deck in New Release

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black and Hispanic students comprised 22% of first-year enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year but accounted for 33% of non-transfer attrition. The class of 2023 saw 80% of graduates secure bar-passage-required employment, a one percentage point increase from the previous year. Bar passage rates continue to show racial disparities.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. A passion for education Dr. Steven R. They just don’t understand what our students don’t know.”

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

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Chamber of Commerce expects to see a massive shortage of skilled workers in 2023. Denmark Tech’s overall job placement rate upon graduation or training completion is 93%. president of Denmark Technical College, a two-year Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in rural Denmark, South Carolina.

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College Board Updates AP African American Studies Course

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The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. 6 release , the testing company almost bookends 2023 with its AP African American studies framework releases. politics.

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

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When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. As we begin 2023, it is beyond time for changes. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation. internships). “Out with the old.

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Featured Partner Scholarships: November 2023

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Our featured Scholarship America partner programs for November 2023 include the $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship (which also offers 400 students the opportunity for a paid internship at Amazon), and the prestigious and generous Equitable Excellence Scholarship, providing $750,000 in awards to students all across the United States.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

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Beyond the content, the process, procedures and placement of the course within the current system, will do little to help dismantle oppression. The “ adversity score " in 2019 and anti-woke AP African American studies class for 2023 are examples of this callous indifference to race issues.