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Racialized Agency as a Buffer for K-16 Black Students in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To state the obvious, it is vital that administrators recruit and retain more Black STEM professionals in STEM and in the curriculum, particularly math and sciences courses in K-12 and in STEM majors. CURRICULUM MODIFICATIONS. Then Black students can aspire to become STEM professionals. Older achievers (i.e.,

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

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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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Transforming Barriers into Assets: Prioritizing the Cultural Wealth of Black Students in STEM

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Unpacking the Power of Cultural Wealth Shifting from deficit-based narratives to an asset-based perspective, it is essential to unpack the definition of cultural capital. This requires modifying the curriculum to be multicultural ; culturally responsive students of color are reflected and affirmed in the curriculum.

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Leading From the Intersection

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If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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Legacy of Innovation and Equity, St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Outgoing President Dr. Tuajuanda Jordan Reflects Tenure

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We did not at any point water down our standards and the rigor of the curriculum,” says Jordan. “As It definitely had that reputation as an ivory tower, so it’s been part of my mission to break down that barrier here.” Jordan also prioritized building a sustainable relationship between the college and the surrounding community. “St.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years. We’ve got that unique Native and non-Native environment.”

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

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Take, for example, the shared data infrastructure work we've been doing for a long time the foundations of data governance where we're partnering with 10 HBCUs to align definitions of higher ed terms and how they're stored in data systems. This allows us to streamline practices for more scalable, more effective solutions.