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Going from Family Engagement to Family Partnerships With Black Marginalized Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They, for the most part, participated in school events and made sure that I prioritized my education. It wasn’t until a mentor teacher who had direct ties and lived experiences with the community sat me down and explained to me how I was doing more harm than good to my students. I had parents who were involved in my education.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Through the research, she was able to demonstrate the utility of citizen science for classifying neutrino events in the IceCube detector. Love is active in STEM mentoring and enrichment programs that target students, especially girls, in high school and the lower grades.

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Bridging the Gap: Why Intergenerational Learning is Crucial Now More Than Ever

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through the elders firsthand accounts of history, culture or societal events, students gain insights unavailable from textbooks and PowerPoints. Social media, virtual interactions, and fragmented communication are abundant today and have negative consequences for our youth.

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Negotiating the Future: How HBCUs and MSIs Can Leverage Strategic Enrollment Management for Institutional Resilience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For HBCUs, this means engaging not just students, but parents, clergy, high school counselors, and community mentors who shape the decision-making ecosystem. note in Chapter 10, multiparty negotiations (such as cross-department SEM committees) require clear roles, shared goals, and open channels of communication.

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As Decision Day Looms, Colleges Try to Boost Minority Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We adjusted our communication to be focused on where the student is in the journey, instead of centering Queens,” said Adrienne Oddi, the vice president of strategic enrollment and communications. Other schools are making diversity a part of their communications from the beginning. So, we eliminated that.”

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End of the Rainbow?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is a space to establish community, which is important for persistence and student success. Johnathan Gooch, communications director for Equality Texas, says that, by spring, many schools had to shut down their LGBTQ+ centers. As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, college students have become adept at building community online.

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Helping Student Parents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

communications, Hood College; M.A., communications, Hood College; and D.O.L., But anytime there was an event with free food, I was stuffing my face and trying to take food home,” she said. “I Lozupone eventually graduated from Hood with a bachelor’s degree in communications. I wish people would’ve asked more questions.”

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