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Community Colleges Chart Path Forward on AI Integration as Students Outpace Faculty Adoption

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The framework calls for ensuring all students—including those in degree and non-degree pathways—develop "AI agility," defined as the capacity to continuously adapt skills and workflows as AI capabilities expand, going beyond basic AI literacy.

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Supporting Counselor Trainees and Practitioners in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Solutions for equity and emotional wellness To foster inclusive and resilient training environments, counseling programs and clinical sites must take intentional steps: • Curriculum Reform: Integrate racial trauma, identity development, and systemic oppression into core coursework — not just isolated diversity lectures.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our comprehensive strategy emphasizes culturally relevant curriculum, robust community connections and clear pathways to success—crucial for nurturing a sense of belonging and enhancing academic persistence. Currently, 60.1% of the Fresno State student population is Latinx.

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The New McCarthyism is Here. Will Higher Ed Say No?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Whats new is that the federal government is now using that logic to impose structural amnesiareplacing racial literacy with silence, and calling it merit. And if we cannot teach, we cannot build the critical literacies that this moment demands. Building Racial Literacies We must expand, not contract, our racial literacies.

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Simple Ways to Bring Mental Health Conversations to Your School This Year

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For those eager to increase knowledge about mental health … download the Active Minds Peer-Powered Mental Health Curriculum for High Schools for free today! The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In our field of biomedical engineering there are all these aspects of hidden curriculum that we wanted to be able to address by creating a community,” Moore said. a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. curriculum and instruction, and assessment). In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020).