Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Despite decreasing interest for working in education, enrollment trends for the two states’ high school introductory teaching courses complicated the story. According to the report, enrollment in Tennessee’s Teaching as a Profession courses has been on the rise from 2018 to 2022, alongside the number of schools offering such courses.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. That they have folks that look like them teaching at those four-year universities. COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Congrats, colleagues!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

When Dr. Diego Villada came to New College of Florida in Sarasota as assistant professor of theater and performance studies, he made a conscious decision not to teach acting with the standard 20th century texts written by white men. Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. AI also has institutional implications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At The Ohio State University, I teach a course by this title in the College of Education and Human Ecology. Within a society in that race is salient, the importance of cultural competence and antiracism in education should extend the boundaries of our consideration and analysis of ‘good teaching.’ Dr. Winston C. Dr. Donna Y.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This negation of their humanity and their consequent relegation to sub-human status based on their racial identification provided justification for the pattern of horrific treatment inflicted upon them – a pattern that laid the foundation for the system of chattel slavery later imposed upon millions of hostages stolen from Africa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service.

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MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

Appleman, who often uses video in her teaching, was prevented from bringing discs into a prison because officials said that they could be used to smuggle in drugs. Computer access is really atrocious,” said Appleman. Faculty are also restricted in the number of materials that they can bring into prisons, as well as what type.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

She stood up to the principal and affirmed my humanity. She let me know, ‘You are a full human being, and they’re going to have to recognize you.’” Rema,” says she has learned from her own experiences to defend our collective humanity. I thought teaching was one of the most esteemed professions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, I recently presented with colleague Richard Kido from Chaminade University of Honolulu on the topic of “Are Changes to the Way We Teach Due to the Pandemic Permanent?” My research at NYU, courtesy of the FRN, engendered invitations to speak at NYU as well.

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MARCH 24, 2024

In his speech titled, "From Mirage to Oasis: The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Opportunity for All," Baston noted that food and housing insecurity and access to the internet, are among the litany of challenges that continue to serve as barriers to student success. Dr. Michael A.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Mental health advocacy is important to me because its facet of human life that we dont think about. The people you meet along the way will teach you more than anything you learned in college. Of the many things I would change about the world, one of them would be to increase access for higher educational opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Melody speaks to all humans, rhythm speaks to everyone on the planet. Michael Moyes, chief operating officer and associate vice president of enrollment strategy and marketing, pre-college, online and professional programs at Berklee, originally connected with BreakFree to teach music to incarcerated students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Has support declined as more women and people of color gained access to college? Indeed, while the scientific review process involves feedback, college administration and even teaching involves very little. Humans have endless capacity to learn, adjust, and grow — if only we allow ourselves the space to do it. Definitely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab It's incredibly hard to meet students where they are and effectively teach and support them without a sense of their basic needs. Give advisors access to the resulting data and consider giving it to faculty too. More complete understandings of the humans we seek to support and educate will lead to better outcomes.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Educational Access and Equity: At its essence, social justice emphasizes universal access to educational resources, irrespective of socio-economic or geographical backgrounds. WVU's impending program cuts stand to rob many West Virginians of this very access. Here are some of the issues at stake.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The program’s hallmark feature for roughly thirty years, a fifth year centered on student teaching, will be cut, with classroom practice becoming the focus of a reorganized fourth year. They don't come back to complete student teaching.” The fifth year of student teaching has long been what distinguished the MSU program from others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Moreover, personal biases and beliefs about certain student populations can impede an educator from effectively teaching their students. Denied access to advanced programming and courses contributes to underachievement, boredom, and possibly behavioral problems for Black boys and girls. Dr. Erik M. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Hyuns determination to include the human-being in transportation engineering makes her scholarship stand out, says Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, professor of civil engineering, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and past president at UTA. Because accessibility is opportunities.

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Knowledge Avatars College

APRIL 28, 2025

Knowledge Avatars: Transformative Education For Teachers and Students Emiliano De La Mon, 04/28/2025 - 15:31 Knowledge Avatars (KAs) are revolutionizing classrooms by enhancing teaching effectiveness and deepening student learning. A digital repository for class notes, easily accessible anytime.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It also means having access to resources and support services that can help them succeed. This means seeing Black history and culture represented in the courses they take and the professors who teach them. Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Discussions around AI and machine learning have become more frequent as of late, with AI tools such as ChatGPT seemingly accessible to the general public. The goal of AI use in many fields – including teaching and healthcare – is as a tool, not a replacement of personnel, the leaders said.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati. They should benefit from continued investment from policy and political leaders.”

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JUNE 16, 2024

Chauna Lawson, associate director of the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) HBCU program, says the center was stripped of “literally every rainbow in sight.” They have done that often with the support of the professionals who work in those offices who helped to teach them and develop their activism. Beemyn says a class divide may develop.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2025

This co-writing is intended to be a learning process where the more experienced supervisor teaches the PhDer about publishing practices through co-authoring. And of course many PhDs by publication allow at least one paper to be co-written with the supervisor. However, it is equally important for the Phder/postPhDer to write by themselves.

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Active Minds

MAY 24, 2023

Myths can be incredibly harmful because they prevent accurate diagnosing and access to effective treatment and can make a person feel even more alone to suffer in their experience. It is unfair to stereotype us because we are all so different human beings. Each of us can destigmatize and change the conversation about BPD.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Faculty and staff at DCCC embraced him, Shegog said, seeing him as a human first and foremost, asking him to share who he was, his past, and his dreams. Du Bois was right: education doesn’t just teach books; it’s supposed to be teaching life.” After going to therapy and rehab, Shegog turned to education to start over.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. When schools enroll in this initiative, they have access to a confidential assessment they will take,” says Hall. Leyva appreciates the institutional support he receives.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. At the graduate level there are eight graduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Pauline Lipman powerfully states in the book referenced above regarding school segregation: “It breaks a web of human connections in which the social and cultural practices of daily life are rooted, race and class identities are formed, and community is constituted.”

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