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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Marcus Bright The meaning that context provides can make a critical difference in tech educational curriculum like computer science. This context gives relevance to curriculum and study that may otherwise seem disconnected. Dr. Marcus Bright is a scholar and social impact facilitator. .

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like the simple, straightforward definition of engagement set forth by the Connecticut State Department of Education : “Family engagement is a full, equal, and equitable partnership among families, educators, and community partners to promote children’s learning from birth through college and career.”

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

At first these were mostly made up words with definitions that were new to me but as a I learned more, I understood how useful this tool could be. Weaving : My approach for launching this program was to connect it to existing structures by weaving it into our Orientation program, training for student leaders, and our curriculum.

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Students, studying, and self-belief: don’t be your worst critic

Student Minds

Though tricky to navigate at times, it's a perfect opportunity to learn about yourself and life beyond the curriculum of your course. I don’t know about you but, as soon as you say - ‘I am doing a degree’ the almost definite response is ‘wow, you must be clever, how amazing’. But there are always solutions. Positivity is infectious.

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.