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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. Census Bureau.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community colleges serve the most diverse students in all of higher education. The KSU-CCLP is a unique program that prioritizes recruiting women and minorities as future leaders that reflect the demographics of community colleges. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. He has a deep connection to community colleges. At age 18, he enrolled in a community college in western Nebraska.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Curriculum “Our students have diverse personal, community-based, cultural and political interests that we welcome by offering a broad range of courses in art history, anime, digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture,” said Otitigbe of Brooklyn College.

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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum.

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

There will be ongoing coverage of the end of affirmative action in admissions, says Dr. Stella Flores, an associate professor in the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Emphasizing 'Purpose' Among Leadership Facing Diversity Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

He counters with an explanation that e-sports “is not an outcome but a strategy” that incorporates coding, math, critical thinking, logic and other courses in an interdisciplinary curriculum. That underscores one of the fundamental issues that we have to worry about, which is helping to create a profound sense of belonging.”

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Leveraging Partnerships to Support Local Workforce Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. These agencies consist of high schools, a state technical college, community colleges, four-year institutions, two state agencies and career centers.

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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“All of our divisions and our colleges are now appointing DEI leads and liaisons who are going to work with their vice president or deans around some part of our commitment to inclusion and equity and also convene with each other to set the university strategy moving forward.” We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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The Critical Race Theory Debate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Oklahoma City Community College cancelled a fully enrolled sociology class about ethnicity and race, and two professors at the University of Central Florida scrapped courses focusing on racial concepts, leaving the institutions with no sociology classes this fall centered primarily around race. In January, Florida Gov.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Diverse Champions Award Dr. Eboni M.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retirements Jennie Vaughan, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, retired in May, after more than 25 years at the school. Newman Dr. Timothy Alvarez, president of the Colorado Community College System’s Otero College, retired Aug. Montague, president of Volunteer State Community College, died Sept.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

Emphasizing 'Purpose' Among Leadership Facing Diversity Challenges

Leveraging Partnerships to Support Local Workforce Needs

Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

The Critical Race Theory Debate

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