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MARCH 5, 2025

Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, a leading educational psychologist, holds the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Southern California (USC). Previously, she served as department head of the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at NC State University.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Susana Córdova, Colorado’s Commissioner of Education delivered the opening keynote at AACTE “We’re all working hard to fill the gaps that exist,” said Córdova, adding that the mounting teacher vacancies—particularly in the wake of COVID-19—has been a top priority for school districts across the country.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legislative ramblings in Florida and other states seeking to remove Black history from the curriculum and revise Black history should give us pause about what historical information students will enter university with. This teaches students the unwavering importance of giving back to the communities that they engage with.

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MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. We believe that higher education faculty and administrators play an integral role in combating the faulty assumptions, racist ideas and harmful policies put forth by white nationalists. This must be challenged.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The landscape of higher education has changed dramatically since the Eisenhower-era statute was implemented. While the Fifty Percent Law technically applies to K-12 schools as well, districts at that level can easily obtain waivers, making community colleges the only educational system where the law is strictly enforced.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Tomlinson was Virginias Teacher of the Year in 1974 and received an All-University teaching award at the University of Virginia in 2008.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State’s Teaching Assistant Project (TAP) – created by its School of Graduate Studies – includes features aimed at providing development of instructional skills, fostering a community of learners and coaches, and ensuring development of a teaching philosophy that fully embraces inclusion and diversity.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education has announced its 2024 AAHHE Mildred Garcia Founders' Award recipient, Dr. David A. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We are dedicated to establishing the best, most effective curriculum and programming to ensure they have a full understanding of history to help them shape the future.” The center will make an amazing contribution to learning across the K-12 curriculum.” All young people deserve to know their past. Dr. David Jefferson Jr.,

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JUNE 20, 2024

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Dr. Virginia Byrne, the Morgan State assistant professor of higher education and student affairs who nominated Hollingsworth, said the Ph.D. For her Ph.D.,

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JANUARY 20, 2023

AAUP stressed the importance of educators having freedom in their teaching to choose materials and approaches. “In In a democracy, higher education is a common good which requires that instructors have full freedom in their teaching to select materials and determine the approach to the subject,” the statement read.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Bridging the gap in access to digital tools, skills training, and a cutting-edge curriculum is essential for empowering underrepresented groups to participate in the tech landscape. Collaborative efforts could include tutoring programs, curriculum development, and targeted interventions designed to improve student outcomes in mathematics.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Since 2021, legislatures and governors in 19 states have enacted educational gag orders that restrict teaching and learning about allegedly divisive concepts such as race, racism, and American history. The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Should we throw in the towel?

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JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. What better place than Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

He also will maintain his University Professor and Provost Professor appointments in the USC Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. She is an APA Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. Dr. Jessica T.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. He has stated that the revisions were made after input from professors and in accordance with "longstanding A.P. principles."

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Patterson Research Institute and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. The UNCF report highlighted the need to leverage external partnerships to prepare students pursuing careers in teaching to transition to their role as educators.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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JANUARY 17, 2024

She would like to see underrepresented and marginalized students thrive and succeed in higher education. Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities. “My

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. As one of the few Latina provosts in higher education, the Seal holds personal significance for me,” Duran-Cerda says. Santiago and Sarita E.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Chat GPT and other innovations that make use of artificial intelligence technologies are brought forward, faculty members and administrators throughout the academic community are appropriately raising concerns about their potential adverse effects on the higher education experience. Harvey is a veteran higher education leader.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

in educational leadership, enabling her to deepen her impact by developing innovative strategies to improve access, equity, and success in higher education. Her research explores strategies to create opportunities for students from marginalized communities, addressing systemic challenges that hinder access to higher education.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Every Learner Everywhere Every Learner Everywhere is a network of organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, scaling, and measuring the efficacy of education technologies, curriculum and course design strategies, teaching practices, and support services in blended and online learning environments.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For the past three years, it’s been teaching others to do the same, seeking to expand what the face of museum studies looks like. And the diversity that New-York Historical wants to foster and accommodate goes beyond race, Paley said, which is reflected in the course curriculum.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving world, the role of colleges and universities extends beyond the traditional boundaries of teaching and research. They are increasingly recognizing the importance of community engagement in fostering civic responsibility, addressing societal challenges, and enriching the educational experience for students.

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JULY 28, 2023

It opens up and broadens knowledge and understanding of cultural differences that we experience, especially in higher education.” We've been charged with creating more engaging curriculum,” Sauvignon said. “Everyone should be taking these subject matters,” said Dr. Carine Sauvignon, an executive dean at Massasoit. “It

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On Friday, professors, executives, and non-profit leaders gathered at the Harvard Club of New York for a series of discussions on how education can help Nigeria achieve its economic goals. The discussions made up the bulk of the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Forum, a morning-long event put on by the Nigeria Higher Education Forum (NHEF).

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APRIL 22, 2024

These documents, whether digitally published or printed, hold the contract as to what degree requirements are currently in place or in past publications, and they represent requirements upon matriculation that students are expected to complete and academic departments are expected to teach.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Educators must understand how to create and implement a curriculum that is antiracist and culturally responsive. At The Ohio State University, I teach a course by this title in the College of Education and Human Ecology. It is part of an antiracist certificate (described below).

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MAY 15, 2024

In this role, he oversees the new university-wide general education requirement course that introduces first-year students to the institution. He is also a teaching assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ music department, intentionally merging his Hip Hop self with his college advisor self.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s easy these days to feel pessimistic about the state of higher education. Amid these tensions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent a promising opportunity to reinvigorate and expand the national higher education narrative. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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MAY 23, 2024

Then, it became a topic of conversation on campus beyond the curriculum or the field [to be] about wellbeing, safety, experiences, and the silencing of Asian Americans in a variety of ways across the country, including on campus,” he says. All of that then helped affirm that Asian Americans themselves are a very distinct population.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Watson holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Houghton College and master’s degrees in mathematics education from Syracuse University and in teaching and curriculum from the University of Rochester. in educational leadership and management from Drexel University. He earned an Ed.D.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The report was based on a survey of 903 institutions of higher education and is conducted every five years. This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Institutions reporting a “moderate” level of internationalization dropped nine points, to 29%.

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