Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Reedley College The lawsuit – from six professors – argued that the DEI rules “mandate viewpoint conformity” and “force professors to endorse the government’s view on politically charged questions regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.” How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. Then, COVID happened, technology became more accessible to people inside.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

The Texas Senate has approved a bill that would limit how state public universities can promote equitable access to higher education and foster campus diversity, The Texas Tribune reported. The bill will not affect course instruction, faculty research, student organizations, guest speakers, data collection or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2022

For close to a year, I have been strategizing and working with Randy Raymond, a software engineer at Google, to make access to computer science education the new “Space Race” and create models that schools can scale to deliver instruction to students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Part of our mission at Howard University is ensuring that education is accessible to students, regardless of their economic status,” said Dr. Anthony K. Howard is one of Kaplan’s first historically Black college and university (HBCU) partners for its ‘All Access’ initiative. Wutoh, Howard provost and chief academic officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Instruction at the center – located on KCU’s McIntire-Farber Campus – will focus on integrating basic sciences with clinical knowledge so students are prepared sooner to care for patients. Missouri has an estimated shortage of more than 700 dentists, Oklahoma 166, and more than 100 each for both Arkansas and Kansas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

government, alleging that it has historically discriminated against Black military veterans, denied them access to housing and education benefits, and rejected service-related disability claims at far higher rates than other veterans, Task & Purpose reported. A Marine Corps veteran is suing the U.S. The suit – filed Nov.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“I was, and always will remain, impressed not only by his love for this institution and its people, but for his belief in the powerful role SUNY Old Westbury must play in providing access to a high-quality education and for its historic commitment to social justice.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Going into COVID was an emerging big need around basic needs, tech access, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and they really stepped up and made emergency student aid an agenda.” Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream, a network of over 300 community colleges dedicated to addressing educational inequities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

When campuses make these changes to the physical space, it makes things more accessible for all,” she said. Ultimately, as Williams points out, these design choices don’t only benefit first-generation students. Jon Edelman can be reached at JEdelman@DiverseEducation.com.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. Many institutions are returning to in-person or maintaining high-flex instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Eighty percent of new Gen Z classroom teachers said the instruction they received lacked in some capacity. Boren says she thinks the education field won’t be able to attract and retain new talent unless the profession is seen as accessible, stable, and secure. Regardless of pathways, however, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the COVID pandemic, a number of Black children were only able to access the internet through their smart phones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Many declined to enroll in the first place.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Union demands include $38,542 base salaries; harassment protections; an emergency fund for international workers; a community-based, non-violent, unarmed response program separate from the Division of Public Safety; child care subsidies; and more accessible gender-affirming care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Harvey, a nationally recognized scholar and academic leader, ultimately posits that limiting students’ access to the truth about themselves and historical realities is unacceptable. This article, written by Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

“The work that I do as a scholar is directly influenced by [the knowledge that] educators serve as critical agents to help students, particularly our minoritized students, navigate institutions that have historically struggled with facilitating access,” he said. Once Wood had access, he made the most of it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Come this fall semester, Wentworth will bring pre-Calculus instruction in-house by offering a new “Foundations of Calculus” to cover the subject. This requirement change-up is a move towards increasing accessibility at Wentworth, Sontgerath said. We have not changed our physics curriculum at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dr. Marcus Bright Even with access to some form of computer science education for example, there still needs to be a great deal of promotion and on-ramps built for students to be motivated to enroll and persist through completion. The adage that “iron sharpens iron” applies here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. In the program, s tudents learn construction , electrical and plumbing basics, blueprint reading and drawing, math , and worksite safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Students may have unequal access to the technology, and the use of AI in the classroom could privilege those who are more comfortable with it, much as the pandemic-era shift to remote learning advantaged those with more access to and familiarity with tools like videoconferencing. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables. In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry. He says he also wants to build a 24-hour urgent care facility on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

For graduate students and professionals interested in an academic career, it is important to understand the differences between selective admission institutions, focused on research, publication, and the expansion of knowledge, and those that are open-access, focused on teaching and student learning.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 2, 2023

Adults instruct children to keep away from those who are experiencing mental health problems. We switched to online instruction in my junior year of high school due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and everything changed in a blink of an eye. Along with school, all my extracurricular classes also shifted online.

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Knowledge Avatars College

MAY 1, 2024

Additionally, Knowledge Avatars allow you to define learning paths, providing students clear, step-by-step instructions. What's more, your Knowledge Avatar AI Companion is easily accessible. Each Knowledge Avatar gets its unique URL, allowing easy access, or you can embed it directly onto your website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

All faculty, the study argues, should have access to high-quality professional development and be compensated for time spent in trainings and offering mentorship. When you have a study like this, that has some instructional practices that benefit students, particularly Black and Latinx students, it’s exciting,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2023

This is the case for Davenport and Earlington Heights Elementary School, but the Saturday school model that is being implemented is a potential blueprint for expanded flexibility and accessibility for schools to be able to incorporate fresh content and modes of instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). Some don’t have access to a wireless signal at home. Your language is your identity,” says Hozien. “If

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Given the extensive barriers individuals with criminal convictions face accessing employment, these policy interventions increase the likelihood of positive workforce placement upon completion of a degree. Luckily, there are several efforts underway to streamline access. Listen to the podcast 3 considerations for creating a PEP 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Furthermore, school counselors can help students access resources needed to achieve a well-rounded pre-K-12 school experience to be prepared for college, careers, and adulthood. There is a good volume of work on multicultural counseling, which ends any excuse to be ill-informed, culture blind, or culturally assaultive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Giving all of our students access to contemporary literature that centers Black youth perspectives is not only important in decolonizing literature education but also in presenting a holistic view of Black childhood. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today’s students are interested in more instruction, experiential learning, credentialing, and career prospects in quantitative and computational fields. At the University of Richmond, we have responded to these demands by developing programming in data analytics, data science and computational research.

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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 As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive. Dr. Vaughn A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, even if such microcredentials are not stackable, they may still influence admissions and access into master’s degree programs, according to the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Recently, he has focused on community colleges and the financial and governance elements of these institutions that provide crucial higher education access for millions of people. “My As access institutions, community colleges have the opportunity to address the postsecondary educational needs of students and their families.

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

Few prep programs, if any, include a curriculum conferring scientifically-based reading instruction methods or the five components of literacy. To support districts and teachers, we provide unrestricted access to our science of reading implementation resources.

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