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Report and New Database Identify Successful Programming for Latinx Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

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The Academic Pipeline Exchange is an open access database charting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in businesses, organizations, and institutions of higher education across the nation. While the full database is only in its initial stages, Drs.

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Excelencia in Education Announces Finalists for 2023 Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education has announced finalists for the 2023 Examples of Excelencia , highlighting U.S. Adriana Rodriguez The 19 programs – selected from 103 submissions – will be put in Excelencia ’s Growing What Works Database , a national database of effective Latino student programs.

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‘Freedom on the Move,’ Clarifying Complicity in American History

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In the Fairfield Community School District in Iowa, an eighth-grade social studies teacher quit his job after he couldn’t get the superintendent to clarify whether a new education law allowed teachers to say that slavery was wrong. This is why I’m so enamored with a database called “Freedom on the Move.”

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CSU Opens Up Access to Transfer Planner to All California Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technically, it is open to students not in the state or country as well, though in-state students will benefit the most, given that one of the tool’s main strengths is its access to the state of California’s ASSIST database.

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Blocking the Transfer Portal to Prison

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The creation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) transfer portal, an online database where student-athletes submit their names with the hopes of transferring to athletic programs at other colleges and universities, has revolutionized the landscape of student-athlete recruitment and mobility.

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Study Investigates Racial Minority Student Law School Experiences

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Strayhorn, professor of higher education and women’s, gender & sexuality studies at Illinois State University, through the lens of critical race theory (CRT). Offering a URM law school student financial support to access the Lexis-Nexis legal database off-campus due to their work/family obligations is helpful, especially to that student.

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