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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. With this in mind, we (Hines and Fletcher) compiled the collection of readings by prominent scholars, as described herein. Dr. Erik M.

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New Partnership Aims to Diversify Medical Device Sales

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The institutions are combining their talents to create a 12-week certification course that will teach students how to use and sell medical devices. It goes beyond teaching concepts, and theory and procedures, they act as a mentor to help students understand how to set themselves up for success in the industry,” said Allen.

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College Board Updates AP African American Studies Course

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. They are designated as topics that teachers can choose to teach during the course’s “Further Explorations week.” “I This new Dec.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. So, when the teaching about race, inequality, and DE&I efforts come under attack, how should higher education leaders respond?

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Our fifth move is decolonizing experiential learning or field placement.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.) How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

These two educational fields rely extensively on tests, often exclusively, to make educational and placement decisions that negatively affect Black student school engagement and performance, which contributes to underachievement – performing lower than they are capable of performing, as shared in our opening statements.

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Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

The Counseling Geek

MAY 16, 2024

A little background for anyone new or unfamiliar with The College Board The College Board, a major educational “nonprofit” organization in the United States that operates around the world, is perhaps most famously known for its administration of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams.

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Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

NACAC's Admitted

APRIL 16, 2023

Academic roadblocks: What trends are the staff in your college’s placement testing office and registrar’s office seeing? This would include the speed and pace of English instruction and the teaching and curriculum approach used for math instruction.) How are students right out of high school doing on the placement tests?

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A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

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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The AP Program’s Impact On Secondary Education

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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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before joining the faculty at Harvard, Gay — a scholar of race, political behavior, and democracy — spent time teaching as an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. Ron DeSantis’s administration blocking initial plans to pilot College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies in Florida high schools.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

New Partnership Aims to Diversify Medical Device Sales

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College Board Updates AP African American Studies Course

Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Dear David 2.0: Unmasking the College Board’s Profiteering at Educators’ Expense

Addressing Community College Enrollment Concerns

A Clarion Call for Change: Four Black Scholars Reflect on the Critical Need for More Educators of Color

The AP Program’s Impact On Secondary Education

2023 Year in Review

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