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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As such, this global movement has forced us to revisit what and how topics and issues are taught in Pre-K-12 and higher education courses; as such, it has forced us to confront the sources of white supremacy, intolerance, and anti-Blackness and hate based on race and ethnicity.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Political and social tensions centered around higher education are by no means new phenomena. I think everyone who cares about Carolina agrees that removing barriers to access is a top priority along with ensuring we offer the very best educational experiences to all our students.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As anyone with passing familiarity with law school knows, law school admissions, and US higher education more generally, is highly ordered, with lower ranked programs offering fewer and lower-paid opportunities even while maintaining very high costs. At the same time, national legal organizations have expressed cautious optimism.

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MARCH 24, 2025

The research team found that while Mattel has made strides in diversity, Black Barbies are often marketed differently and given less prominent placement in stores. The study also examined marketing materials, packaging, and positioning of the dolls in retail environments.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

This surge in access aligns with AB 705’s core objective: to remove gatekeeping mechanisms like placement tests that had historically placed California students in remedial courses, delaying their academic progress. Many other states have adopted or are implementing similar reforms and are observing comparable outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

CCNY will develop an online database tracking internship and job placements of humanities majors and offer new courses that would provide academic credit for supervised internships. ODU will provide internship placements and related programming for 750 humanities students over five years.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Years later, as higher education faculty in gifted and talented education, school counseling, mental health, and college and career readiness, we have the same and more concerns. I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

The fate of affirmative action in higher education awaits a U.S. Since then, the power and promise of higher education have become clearer—if not fully realized. So, when the teaching about race, inequality, and DE&I efforts come under attack, how should higher education leaders respond?

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JULY 27, 2023

Participants will also receive tuition assistance, mentorship, tutorial services, technology resources, networking opportunities, and job placement assistance. To be eligible, students must be a Pennsylvania resident; have enrolled prior in an accredited higher education institution; have withdrawn from school without a credential Jun.

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APRIL 22, 2025

The Legal Education Data Deck draws on datasets from multiple sources, including the Law School Admission Council, National Conference of Bar Examiners, National Association for Law Placement, American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When cultural ways of being and cultural differences are framed as assets rather than problems, unnecessary special education referrals, labeling, and placements will decrease. More representation of minoritized professionals is needed in P-12 and higher education. c. Disciplinary overrepresentation.

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MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. That can be problematic, to the extent that both of those placements are kind of associated with longer-term student trajectories.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

As widely predicted , the ruling reversed 40 years of legal precedent that protected race-conscious admissions in higher education. But last Thursday’s decision found that affirmative action in higher education violates the Constitution. These inequities translate to fewer students in the pipeline for law school.

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JUNE 22, 2023

We need to make space for innovation and for different types of learning – not just inside of classrooms but also through internships, experiential engagements, and job placements with businesses, organizations and community groups with whom we have deep relationships,” Kinloch said. “We

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JUNE 16, 2023

The College Board will not be altering its Advanced Placement (AP) classes to accommodate new demands from Florida, The Hill reported. Ron DeSantis The educational testing company announced this decision in a letter last Thursday.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Looking at creating this partnership between the Black workers/Black students and higher education and workforces to ensure that we are creating a smoother trajectory to these higher paying careers,” she said. She further noted that getting feedback from Black learners and workers helped shape the framework.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Al Sharpton DeSantis’ latest efforts to halt Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies in Florida public schools continues to face nationwide backlash. “He might call this a crusade, but everyone can clearly see this is a campaign tactic for him to run for president. Intersectionality is a uniting framework.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In my mind, I want everyone to attend an HBCU if they can, but we also know that’s not the right placement for every student depending on where they’re from, and so basically, it’s our alternative to that,” he said, adding that he wants to replicate the HBCU experience for the students who enroll in the Honors College.

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JUNE 5, 2024

The report examines why public systems have struggled to respond to such barriers despite reform efforts and describes promising practices, including intensive one-on-one interventions to help youth complete high school and pursue post-secondary education.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

College Board will release an updated version of its African American studies Advanced Placement course Feb. 1, The Hill reported. This comes amid Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration blocking initial pilot program plans in Florida high schools. Ron DeSantis College Board did not attribute the revisions to Florida’s rejection.

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JULY 11, 2023

The students – 23 received a certificate of completion or associate's degree – took classes through SLCC's Prison Education Program – which was founded in 2017 and offers job placement after their sentences end. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

The Alamo Colleges District, made up of five community colleges, is the largest provider of higher education in South Texas with over 100,000 students, 81% of whom are students of color. My lens is that I’m not competing against another higher education institution, I’m competing against poverty in San Antonio,” said Morrill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Regardless, it is evident any attempt to promote diversity within higher education must confront this long-standing history and its associated debates. In doing so, they are complicit in reinforcing racist and oppressive power dynamics that contribute to inequality in higher education access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

But nothing in his contract indicates that he would be just an interim placement, the court found. The board is expected to respond to the court order Monday evening at a special board meeting. In late December, the board hired Greg South as interim president. His contract runs at least until Jun.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Education and training programs at the Cohen Career Collective are expected to lead to associate degrees, industry certifications, and other credentials valued by New York City employers in high-demand sectors, including Healthcare, Construction, Technology, Culinary & Hospitality, Green Jobs, and Film and Television.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Strayhorn, a professor of higher education at Illinois State University. “As “As a race scholar and Black academic, I find a lot of value in the framework’s organization: Origins of the African Diaspora; Freedom, Enslavement and Resistance; The Practice of Freedom; and Movements and Debates,” said Dr. Terrell L.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

At Bottom Line, we partner with degree-aspiring Black and brown students from under-resourced communities starting in high school to provide them with direct advice, counsel and support, through the college selection and financial aid process, course choices and career path trajectory, and the job search, prep and placement process.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Having a higher degree than an associate’s just doesn’t pay as well in rural work, the report noted. That being said, higher educational attainment still presents promise, researchers pointed out. People with bachelor's or graduate degrees had lower odds of having a good job in rural America than in urban America.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They are not only inequitably overrepresented in special education, but they have no representation in rigorous coursework or gifted and talented programs (i.e., GATE, Advanced Placement).

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MARCH 21, 2024

Almost 200 NU students have completed a work-based learning placement with an employer through Riipen-integrated NU courses, Savory said.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Additionally, Ladson-Billings noted that 75% of Black students who are considered eligible for advanced placement (AP) courses never take one, in part because so many of these students are enrolled in schools where these accelerated courses are not even offered. But that's the reality."

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Similarly, our second finding suggests that kindergarten assessments predicted the resegregation of these boys and girls in special education, compared to white girls, by third grade. public schooling. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e.,

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MARCH 20, 2024

MSC CEO Travis Allen said that part of what makes his program so unique is that instructors are actually “seasoned veteran medical device sales representatives,” who not only teach the students but also help them connect with jobs after completion, a key part of MSC’s 84% placement rate.

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APRIL 6, 2023

There will also be funding to cover books and other materials, as well as travel to and from student teaching placements. Because the numbers are low, our education students feel as if they’re trying to overcome mountains by themselves,” said Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

Parents and caretakers are always concerned about educational costs, degree competition and job placement, and if a safe and healthy campus environment is provided for their students,” said Dr. Davida L. The children of these parents had engaged in one or more college search behaviors involving four-year institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The College Board has released a revised framework of its African American studies Advanced Placement (AP) course, a course that has received plenty of criticism from both advocates and critics this year. Dr. Terrell Strayhorn With this Dec.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Rivera noted that a previous placement exam once used in the MCCCD placed many students in developmental courses and was biased against first-generation students in particular. “I think sometimes that’s a struggle when we’re working with employees or even community members that have come from a different background,” said Rivera.

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