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Rewriting the Script: How HBCUs Are Shifting the Future of Graduate Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From curriculum to campus culture, intentionality drives design. They are dismantling outdated paradigms, building inclusive systems, and redefining success on their own terms. And its not just about who we educate, but how we educate. We are investing in faculty. This is more than a trend. Dr. Pietro A.

Education 290
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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Over the last five years, the proportion of Latine/x students among graduates has increased by 24%, while the percent change for all other students remained stagnant.”

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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title :Assistant Dean for Student Vitality & Career Development and Director of Student Affairs Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Virginia; MBA in Business Administration, Averett University; Ph.D This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Editors of top-tier journals couldn’t comprehend why she chose to focus on Black women instead of Black people generally, and if she wanted to talk about Black women and girls in the courses that she taught, she had to figure out how to slip the material into the pre-designed curriculum. The experience was isolating. They were hiring three.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before coming to Otero, Alvarez was a senior fellow for NASPA (student affairs administrators in higher education) and a vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University. He has a deep connection to community colleges. At age 18, he enrolled in a community college in western Nebraska.

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Online Transition Programming in the Time of COVID

Supporting Student Success

In just two months, while still performing their regular job functions in the new online environment, the Get Ryerson Ready team researched, developed, designed, and launched a robust, innovative, multi-disciplinary, and award-winning transition curriculum to support the success and well-being of the incoming class of 2020. The Context.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

2011; Meyer, 2015) Human rights protections and equitable legal recognition / protections for identity representation and full inclusion; and, Cultural identity, connection to language & land within Indigenous communities (Kirmayer et al., Within student affairs, representation in programming offered (e.g.