Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S. Since then, the power and promise of higher education have become clearer—if not fully realized. So, when the teaching about race, inequality, and DE&I efforts come under attack, how should higher education leaders respond?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

College Board will release an updated version of its African American studies Advanced Placement course Feb. Florida’s Department of Education has argued that the curriculum was contrary to Florida law and lacked educational value. 1, The Hill reported. This comes amid Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The students who are accepted into the college will complete their General Education (GE) classes there and will be taught in small classes and mentored by mostly Black Sacramento State faculty members. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said. Wood is hoping to recruit some of those students to his campus. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. More representation of minoritized professionals is needed in P-12 and higher education. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. Davis III, an assistant professor in University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education. “It This new Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Strayhorn, a professor of higher education at Illinois State University. “As Ron DeSantis’s administration recently voiced opposition and blocked the pilot in Florida high schools, saying that the course was contrary to Florida law and lacked educational value.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

achievement and opportunity gaps, underachievement, excessive and unjust suspensions and expulsions, overrepresentation in special education , and underrepresentation in gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement ), it behooves educators to not just increase minoritized students’ engagement , but to also increase their family’s engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But that's the reality."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To frame it any other way dismisses both the historical and contemporary contexts and centrality of race and racism in decisions to remove these specific students from the general education system, forcing them into a system that suppresses their opportunities and contributes to miseducation. curriculum and instruction, and assessment).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

MSC CEO Travis Allen said that part of what makes his program so unique is that instructors are actually “seasoned veteran medical device sales representatives,” who not only teach the students but also help them connect with jobs after completion, a key part of MSC’s 84% placement rate. The program will be the first of its kind in the area.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

For example, we add culture to everything associated with gifted and talented education, Advanced Placement, special education, discipline, college and career readiness, and counseling. In this same spirit, we interrogate measures, theories, and curriculum to expose “cultureblindness” and cultural assaultiveness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The barriers to academic achievement and pride are numerous and too often seen with racial discrimination – deficit thinking, low expectations, hyper-surveillance, excessive discipline, overrepresentation in high-incidence special education categories (e.g., gifted and talented, Advanced Placement, Honors).

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College Planners of America

JUNE 5, 2024

Earning high grades on Advanced Placement (AP) exams can foster both results. It is often criticized for its negative impact on college education in general. One of the more scathing quotes from an expert in higher education is that of John Tierney of Boston College. But there is a dark side to the AP program.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 5, 2024

Earning high grades on Advanced Placement (AP) exams can foster both results. It is often criticized for its negative impact on college education in general. One of the more scathing quotes from an expert in higher education is that of John Tierney of Boston College. But there is a dark side to the AP program.

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College Planners of America

JULY 24, 2023

Experts in higher education have long criticized the Advanced Placement (AP) program, but few have been as scathing as John Tierney, a professor at Boston College. That’s the case with Advanced Placement courses, one of the great frauds perpetrated on American high-school students. That’s a powerful statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

The college provides its students of all races, cultures, and majors a comprehensive curriculum that focuses on the Black and African American experience. or higher and demonstrate interest in Black history, life, and culture. It enrolls students who maintain a GPA of 3.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Another area where policy is being highly contested is education, particularly in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has cracked down on Critical Race Theory, DEI positions at universities, and the College Board’s proposed curriculum for an Advanced Placement African American Studies class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

The new measures include restrictions on demonstrations, revised disciplinary procedures, and a review of its Middle East studies curriculum. Columbia's concessions raise important questions for higher education institutions nationwide about balancing free speech, academic freedom, and federal funding requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. Gilliam was appointed to the role of president of Boston University.

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