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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through intentional outreach to applicants, dedicated pathway programs, partnerships, curriculum, and programs specifically built to serve underserved populations, and a focus on regionality and socio-economic histories, UC Davis has become one of the most diverse medical school programs in the nation. What barriers have they overcome?

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We We were not just a college access program.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. Some distinct program features include: 1. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If the applicants all happen to be white, well, that is the most qualified pool. Assumption two, the pool of applicants is not filled with friends and family and just hook-ups from the thinking inside the box, lid closed committee. We often hear, “We can’t find any,” and “We are hiring the most qualified”.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Less than 10% of applicants are accepted. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating.

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