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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. I define instructional violence as intentional and unintentional teaching/pedagogical styles and strategies that negatively affect the academic, psychological, emotional, and behavioral needs of students.

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Going to College Doesn’t Have to Suck

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. I adore this human, who started life at barely 4 lbs and has emerged into a thoughtful, sensitive man with a love for soccer and his long-term girlfriend.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The North Star Promise program is open to all Minnesota residents with a family Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) below $80,000, as reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).” Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. On-campus enrollment is approximately 615 students.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. counting publications, citations, teaching ratings) are often based on self-justifying yardsticks. Ford is the EHE Distinguished Professor in the College of Education & Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Donna Y.

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Combating the Illusion of DEI Collusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Why would an institution boast that “46% of this year’s incoming class are students of color” and shun its process to ensure that faculty can attest to their capacity to teach them?

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Social Drivers of Health Are Affecting Your Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While their past transcripts, test scores, and applications indicate something about who they are and how they are doing, the truth is that we won’t know much about their lives without asking better questions. More complete understandings of the humans we seek to support and educate will lead to better outcomes.

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