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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Study Investigates Racial Minority Student Law School Experiences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. However, individual acts of this kind locate the problem within the person, falsely assuming they uniquely lack something that others possess.

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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is the project director of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Forward, a database that, she says, identifies, tracks, and analyzes governmental actions or legislation “that aim to restrict access to truthful information about race.” Alexander is a lecturer of law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

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Charlie Baker Goes to the NCAA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Baker says the NCAA is in the process of building a sports fan database. It’s 2024, and we have millions of people who attend our championships, and we [have] never really gotten to know and learn much about them and that’s going to change,” he says, adding that the goal is to have 10 million sports fan added to the database. “I

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Prepare your graduates for today’s and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how

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Unlike Python, SQL has been around for over 50 years and has remained the preferred programming language for database management. How One Institution Created a Blueprint for Improving Student Equity Across Campus. Python is also compatible with emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Get more insights.

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Empowering Excellence: A TRIO Program’s Journey to Streamlined Success with empower™ 

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The platform’s structured database system allowed me to utilize different fields and columns, enhancing my understanding of their importance in the APR. Her expertise was evident, making empower an attractive choice. Initially, I used a spreadsheet, which was helpful. However, transitioning to empower was a game-changer.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen.

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