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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We spend an hour with parent/family liaisons and community outreach coordinators who instruct us on the importance of reading at home to overcome vocabulary gaps or how to navigate systems at school. instruction, teaching styles, learning styles). Black families frequently arrive at school to be treated like students themselves.

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Exploring the Roots of Racial Bias

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her research and teaching have benefitted from the biopsychosocial framework. Her lab actively does community outreach to collaborate with schools and community partners like EmbraceRace, an organization that supports parents in raising children to be informed and thoughtful about race.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

President Stokes shared the best advice she’s ever received: “As an assistant professor, I had a graduate student who at the last moment was asked to teach a class just as he was about to take his preliminary exams. And I got fired up, went to the person who made the assignment, and let them know my displeasure.

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Panel Explores Gun Prevention in Black Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He said that while he and his colleagues were engaged in community outreach about healthy eating, young people would ask for lessons on what they should do if they were shot or saw someone else injured by a bullet. "What we ended up finding is that those same students had an interest in health careers," said Pratt.