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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, Modernizing California Community College Funding: Reforming the Fifty Percent Law to Support Student Success," argues that the 1961 law requiring California's community colleges to spend at least half of their general funds on direct classroom instruction is outdated and prevents colleges from adequately funding critical student support (..)

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Leading From the Intersection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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PART 1: March 2025 Update on Lawsuits Challenging the SAVE Plan

NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

The Eighth Circuit also instructed the lower court to expand the scope of the preliminary injunction to block the entire SAVE Rule, not just the cancellation provided through the SAVE plan. In February 2025, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district courts order preliminarily enjoining (i.e.,

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How to Deal with People Who Seem to Lack Common Sense

Steve Keating

If you’re teaching someone how to manage a task, show them how it’s done rather than relying on verbal instructions alone. This was far from our first frustrating experience with this person, but my wife and I have already agreed it will definitely be our last. Use examples : Concrete examples can make abstract ideas easier to grasp.

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California Community College Professors Sue, Alleging New DEI Rules Violate First Amendment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They also threaten promotions and tenure pursuits by potentially punishing faculty for not following the state’s definitions of DEI, the suit alleges. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said. I’m a professor of chemistry.

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Landscape Review Finds More Questions in Link Between Higher Ed and Civic Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is another hole in civic engagement research: a lack of real consensus around the definition of civic or community engagement. For Hulbert, this lack of singular definition makes research that much harder. “We Dr. Ioana G. Hulbert, researcher at Ithaka S+R. It’s very widespread,” said Hulbert. “A