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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. Both curriculum and instruction must be designed with beneficence in mind to do no harm with the content and how it is delivered, respectively. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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College Isn’t for Everyone? Um…

Counselors' Corner

I thought about that question today, as I read the first of what is sure to be a number of articles that always come out this time of year that address the of going to college. This is the time of year many counselors review their curriculum to make sure next years students are even better served.

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Reflections on Juneteenth, Immigration Protests, and Liberatory Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following instructions from the community’s elders, Umoja’s director of curriculum and instruction, dressed in a white dress with matching heels, stood behind the podium and addressed the room. After two days of meetings, presentations, and social activities, the closing white ceremony sealed the conference’s theme of liberatory education.

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. “We

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. In addition, she has published dozens of articles in Educational Researcher , Review of Educational Research , Educational Psychologist , Contemporary Educational Psychology , Teachers College Record , and many other top journals. Dr. Jessica T. Harper agrees. “I

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Enhancing Degree Pathways by Integrating Industry-Recognized Credentials

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A recent article in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlighted that “there are still 36.8 Furthermore, aligning curriculum with industry-recognized certifications provides students with a practical and direct pathway to gaining valuable skills that are in high demand by employers.