Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Drawing from his unique trajectory as a first-generation college student turned HBCU president and professor, Black, Not Historically Black combines scholarly analysis with raw personal testimony to create a work that is both an indictment and a love letter to these vital institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Reading stories about diverse characters has benefits for all students. Students of color perform better when they see themselves accurately represented, and white students learn about the world as it really is—a complex multi-cultural place. Over half of the books in the sample failed to avoid these traps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The Forum’s Freedom to Learn campaign, which also condemns attempts roll back decades-old civil rights victories, is a movement initiated by a coalition of civil rights, human rights, and other social and racial justice organizations to fight the policies and practices that harm marginalized Black and LGBTQ+ teachers and students. “As

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Active Minds chapters are student-led, school-based groups that start conversations, inspire culture change, and undertake advocacy efforts throughout their communities. For those eager to increase knowledge about mental health … download the Active Minds Peer-Powered Mental Health Curriculum for High Schools for free today!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. On last Friday, it was all about the students. Du Bois was right: education doesn’t just teach books; it’s supposed to be teaching life.” Sometimes students don’t know how to share their knowledge. asked Shegog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

But the two have partnered on one of Grinnell’s most unique courses—a class called The Journey Within that centers student self-exploration. Scott devoured the book and arranged to have coffee with Freeman, where they talked for two hours, sharing their journeys. “What would motivate me to talk to some white boy over in the gymnasium?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These positions wield significant influence over local education budgets, curriculum decisions, and the hiring and firing of school leaders. The 2024 school board elections provide a unique chance to steer our education system in the right direction, and we must seize this opportunity to benefit our students and communities alike.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

A few days ago, I went to my office to get one of my students a book of great interest. 1. Multicultural education is a reform movement designed to make some major changes in the education of students. Students should not have to reject themselves and others as cultural beings to achieve in schools and society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I (Ford) was reading a commentary on the top number of “issues” facing education/ educators and became even more outraged and indignant on terminology used to describe children who live in poverty, Blacks, and other minoritized students. b. Special education over-referrals and overrepresentation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today. “We She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., In 2022, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In October 2022, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) released a new report where, again, Black students lagged behind white students on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) also known as the Nation’s Report Card. Black students know more than what those damn tests claim to measure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

In other words, I erroneously thought students across the country had Black teachers. He spent time with students, created after school programs, and encouraged us to do well academically as it would create career and financial opportunities. grade skipped, an A student, Spelling Bee winner) to please my mother. and Rosa Parks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities. Universities and community colleges are both essential to closing equity gaps and supporting all students in achieving the benefits of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Regardless of an instructor's talent or the allure of a dynamic curriculum, success hinges not solely on external factors, but also on the learner's mindset. Students’ self-perceptions are central to the actions, or inactions, they pursue within social systems such as in mathematics classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. This negative indoctrination starts early, as demonstration in a children’s book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy. But academic racism was certainly not limited to the persecution and dehumanization of kidnapped Africans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

People sat outside on blankets, chatting or reading books. I sat in on my first college lecture, I sang karaoke with college students, and I spent the night sleeping on the floor of my host student’s college dorm. Moore and Dr. Ijei supported every student. At Bradley, I walked across a college campus for the first time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Students, senior leaders, community partners, community-engaged scholars and staff, and diversity professionals are all important members of the team. Further, evidence shows that community-based engagement correlates with student learning gains. The stakes are too high for our students and democracy to do otherwise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. 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. Dr. David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Among the highlights of his presidency is serving a diverse student population. Knowing all the challenges that our students are going through — much more since COVID — it’s so important.” We had seven students graduate this year from that program with CU and all of them are working as teachers in our area.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

For generations, STEM education has remained an integral approach to learning and development, helping students develop the critical thinking tools that are vital to an ever-evolving world. As such, STEM students are invaluable to the economy and workforce. Substantial changes in the field are right around the corner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

history makes white children feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, and psychological distress ,” without any consideration of Black students’ feelings of isolation and unimportance. The need for all students to not only learn African American studies, but for them to learn a fully inclusive history of our country should be our goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. Dr. Candace N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. Research is clear regarding how race and racism impact us all in the United States and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas August 14, 2023 — by Holly Hexter, Neve Dole B Ashley Thomas spearheaded a strategic collaboration bridging TRIO Programs with Thermo Fisher Scientific. ” Of the outreach, she says, “I just want to make sure it keeps growing.” 

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 31, 2024

With that in mind, it’s easy for me to ask if we could promote this week with some activities designed to increase awareness of our office, and the services we offer our students. At lunch, we’ll make a brief presentation about this part of the curriculum, and how students can make the most of them. We’re also bringing snacks.

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COE

JULY 8, 2025

billion in federal TRIO funding—citing concerns over performance measures and accountability—even as TRIO programs currently serve roughly 870,000 low-income, first-generation, and disabled students nationwide (about 17,500 in Colorado). Hamm The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 “skinny” budget proposes eliminating all $1.2

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

When people ask me about my work, they often wonder if my motivation stems from being a low-income, first-generation college student myself. Although she graduated at the top of her high school class, like many of our own TRIO students emerging from under-resourced high schools, she found herself woefully unprepared for the rigors of college.

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. This program provided students with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the world and their place within it. Learn more about COE’s opportunities for students and recent alumni.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Wilkerson wrote The New York Times bestselling book, “ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ,” which was published in 2010. Her 2020 book, “ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent ,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Both texts were the subject of her keynote speech.

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COE

APRIL 11, 2023

Research Reveals Ways to Improve Mental Health Support for First-Generation Students April 11, 2023 — by Holly Hexter Colleges can do more to help first-generation students address mental health challenges as they transition to campus life, an Ohio State University researcher says. Sergeev emigrated to the U.S.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 21, 2023

“Aja created an entire plan to teach students about ASL and to teach the students how to sign a famous children’s book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See ? The students absolutely loved it!” I want to become an audiologist, but I am not sure whether I want to work as a researcher or clinician.

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