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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks is the father of multicultural curriculum culturally relevant and affirming content and materials. I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. Combined and individually, curriculum and/or instruction can traumatize students, in this case Black students.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After completing his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in 2016, Henry joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where his understanding of race in America was enriched by exposure to border state dynamics and the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and Mexican communities. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

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Illuminating Asian American Narratives in Literature and Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Trans research agenda crystallized during her undergraduate studies at CUNY, Queens College, where she noticed a significant gap in the curriculum. Asian American literature was a huge gap in the curriculum, Tran recalls. For Tran, teaching Asian American literature fulfills acrucial representational role.

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Number of HBCU Registered Apprenticeships Surging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The toolkit outlines a five-step process for building successful programs: assembling a campus-wide team, identifying industry partners, aligning curriculum with workforce needs, registering with federal or state agencies, and publicizing the programs to students.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks?

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How Maricopa Community Colleges are Leading with Workforce-aligned Bachelor’s Degrees

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an effort to fill critical openings, some schools have reduced the criteria needed to teach, including the requirement of a traditional teaching bachelors degree. By partnering with Intel, our curriculum prepares students for real-world application. Maricopa Community Colleges has been at the forefront of AI.

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Federal Court Blocks Education Department's Diversity Directive, Marking Victory for Academic Freedom Advocates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The court determined the directive potentially contradicts established legal protections for academic freedom and may violate constitutional rights by imposing vague restrictions on curriculum and programming.

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