Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

The presence of Black educators not only serves to motivate and inspire Black students but also enriches the learning environment for all students by bringing diverse perspectives and teaching styles that foster a more inclusive and engaging educational experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

An example of where even completing a FAFSA—a requirement of North Star Promise—can clash with Native American culture is provided by Tiffany Gusbeth, vice president of student success services of the American Indian College Fund (College Fund). That they have folks that look like them teaching at those four-year universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

The intersection of strong math skills and success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) career fields presents an opportunity not only for individuals but also for the overall economic development of our communities. Students frequently criticize key math courses for being overly abstract and disconnected from reality.

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Purdue University Global

MARCH 28, 2025

Presented by the English and Rhetoric Department and the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative at Purdue University Global, TheWACademic Blog is a digital space where writing educators and professionals share stories, data, and research that demonstrate the power of WAC in college courses (PG WAC, 2024). The WACademic Blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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. In fact, studies have shown that there is little correlation between SAT scores and success in college or in life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

This grant propels us to build a more inclusive curriculum, a broader research agenda, and deeper impact on our community by dramatically increasing the number of faculty members whose work centers the Black experience.” Roy Wilson, President of Wayne State. “We

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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. Not only are our instructors experts in anatomy, physiology, and surgical procedures, they have really successful careers as device representatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

We know that this community-building is essential for student support, success, and happiness,” Byrne says. Hollingsworth hopes that she’ll find a career where she can be both “researcher and practitioner,” where she can both teach and carry out administrative duties, she says. That’s a lot of labor to ask of students, unpaid.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. As it stands now, Chang is the only faculty member who teaches Asian studies at the Hartford campus.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Active Minds’ free programs—like the We Are Active Minds Middle School curriculum and Peer-Powered High School Curriculum —equip schools with the tools to foster that sense of belonging and support right from the start. Let’s make mental health part of the success story. Let’s make this school year different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

While working at the medical school, Witcher Walker developed a deep passion for enhancing the student experience, recognizing the critical role support systems play in shaping academic and personal success. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Luke Wood “This is one component of a larger effort to increase success rates for Black students,” said Dr. J. It’s not just taking any GE class, we’re handpicking GE classes that focus on the Black experience,” said Wood, who noted that the college curriculum will be broadly influenced by Pan-African studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Community congruent An institution’s success in serving Latine students is tied to its ability to reflect the surrounding community. This sense of belonging is critical for student retention and success. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. Dr. Donna Y.

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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. Mine turned out to be an improbable success story, one in which my past did not determine my future. Supreme Court ruling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. Faculty can also bring the work and stories of undocumented immigrants into their curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“My research examines the ways in which larger social processes affect students and their overall well-being while also addressing underrepresented and marginalized students in relation to retention and success,” she says. Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving world, the role of colleges and universities extends beyond the traditional boundaries of teaching and research. Young believes the college’s community engagement work is a standout, contributing to students' success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” by requiring students to be engaged with the apparatus they’ve built to help students be successful.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. They also have something they can teach, instead of having to earn money with a minimum wage job.” There are also reading and nutrition workshops. I always tell people you have to learn how to work hard.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Across the country, state legislators have been debating—and in several cases passing— legislation that censors teaching and learning, threatens academic freedom, and limits or eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and efforts both on and off campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Thriving is often related to the success generated by one's effort. Flourishing is most often associated with creating and facilitating the environment for a person to be successful. However, to be holistically successful by flourishing, a person needs the right environment (i.e., people, resources, time, space, support, etc.).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

A&T has hosted six successful national conferences to address current and emerging environmental issues and solutions, and foster relationships that result in partnerships to protect and sustain the environment. We infuse ethics, character, and leadership with our courses as unique features. Under Uzochukwu’s leadership, N.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She oversaw 15 departments and was responsible for the academic success of John Jay’s 13,000 undergraduates. Working as a teaching assistant for two freshman courses sparked her desire to teach, and Howard’s change-oriented mission impacted her vision of making higher education more equitable. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. A fully designed doctoral curriculum in which all courses focus on the community college. Some distinct program features include: 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Folawe Omikunle, the CEO of Teach for Nigeria, agreed. But the problems start before university, she said, with a curriculum that often reflected the priorities of colonists—that Nigerians should learn English so that others can trade with them. In order for the nation to advance, Idemyor argued, everyone must work together.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

And the unfortunate part is that they’ve had some successes.” Paulette Granberry Russell Reflecting on the escalating political attacks on DEI work in various parts of the nation, Russell said that “to now find ourselves in a situation where there’s this very aggressive advocacy to turn the clock back is profoundly disappointing. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. After receiving his B.S.

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Counselors' Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Eighteen months or online school/in-person-no-wait-online school first required counselors to figure out how to put their counseling curriculum online, then sent them scattering when some districts seemed to arbitrarily decide when to put school online, and when to hold it in person. See where the data guides you, and go there.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Faculty should be committed to teaching the diverse student body. “I Even though we’re a teaching institution, the nature of passion that a faculty member has for his, her or their research is important because that ignites some spark in students.” Some of the didactic and professional curriculum were flipped.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. William Hardin, dean of the Florida International University (FIU) College of Business, says the large number of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels enable the university to create successful programs that impact students from underserved minorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. So be mindful about what you’re teaching and how you’re managing those classrooms.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to a 2020 report from Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (APIA) Scholars, an organization working to support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student success, 50% of Native Hawaiian students leave college without receiving a degree or certificate. Just under 8% of UH M?noa

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