Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) made the decision to officially end affirmative action practices at all public institutions in the U.S. The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. Dr. Jessica Faiz. Black and Brown students face extraordinary barriers to medical school, including discrimination and educational and financial hurdles, says Dr.

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Counseling Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

ACA President Edil Torres Rivera provides an update on ACA leadership and the recent decision to reorganize the Governing Council. The post From the President: Recent decisions regarding ACA’s governance and leadership appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Holly Rachel Holly Rachel has been appointed executive director of the Darrell S. Freeman Sr. Incubation and Innovation Center at Fisk University in Nashville. Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, and a master’s in chemistry from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blogs A Beginner’s Guide to AI in Annual Giving What you need to know and how to start using it in your advancement strategy With each passing day, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a more prominent topic of discussion for advancement leaders. You’ve no doubt heard about generative AI and tools like ChatGPT , but what exactly are they, and how can they help your advancement strategy?

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. These policies aimed to counteract systemic disadvantages by considering race, ethnicity, and other factors in admissions processes. However, changes in legal and policy landscapes have led to reconsidering or eliminating these measures in many contexts.

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The Advisor That Cares

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I am completely brain-fried, tired, and cannot even tell you which way is up anymore when it comes to synthesizing my ideas, but that is just context information for this next part. I cannot tell you how many times over the last two days I have typed something into my browser, thinking that it was going to search my ePortfolio for that word. I just caught myself typing “Contributions” and then seemed confused as to why Google was on my screen telling me how to spell it, pronounce it,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When he was first asked to educate people on Islamophobia, DEI expert Dr. Amer F. Ahmed – a scholar of South Asian descent with multiple Black studies degrees to his name – was worried he would get “pigeon-holed.” But after he began teaching about the issue, he gradually changed his mind. Dr. Amer F. Ahmed “Once I did start giving those presentations, I was shocked and concerned at the degree to the lack of context and information that a lot of my colleagues had about my community,” said Ahmed s

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