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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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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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Removing Credit Transfer Barriers Key to Improving Higher Ed Completion Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Seligsohn Higher education in the United States has come under increasing scrutiny — but not always for the right reasons. Nonetheless, anyone who cares about higher education must also ask why these arguments resonate so deeply with the public.

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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. higher ed programs that intentionally support Latino students with culturally relevant, evidence-based practices.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In Florida, the state board of education adopted social studies standards that ignited an uproar by calling for students to be taught about “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” 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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Study Investigates Racial Minority Student Law School Experiences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strayhorn, professor of higher education and women’s, gender & sexuality studies at Illinois State University, through the lens of critical race theory (CRT). He conducted interviews – one-on-one and group – with 29 students of color enrolled in one of three predominantly white U.S. law schools.

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