Knack

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While strides have been made to increase access and inclusion, persistent gaps in achievement and retention continue to disproportionately affect students from underserved backgrounds. Equity in education remains one of the most pressing challenges in higher education. One of the most impactful tools in this effort is academic support.

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Student Privacy Compass

APRIL 29, 2025

Next Steps: Tips for Policymakers for Increasing Guidance Effectiveness The data privacy principles listed above are integral to responsible, safe, and ethical data privacy practices, and state education departments inclusion of them in their guidance on the use of generative AI in K-12 schools is an encouraging start. In Context.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Findings from the 2025 Student Success Impact Report reinforce a powerful truth: supplemental instruction (SI), tutoring, and writing centers aren’t just add-ons—they’re foundational to a healthy student success model. Access to physical spaces like libraries and technology hubs also play a critical role.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 17, 2025

Schools can create a welcoming environment by using inclusive language that reassures families they will be supported regardless of their financial situation. Schools find success in streamlining applications by offering clear instructions, online submission options, and readily available assistance.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By creating a simplified application with flexible deadlines and clear instructions, schools make the process more accessible and user-friendly for transfer students. By implementing these strategies, schools can create a positive and inclusive environment that empowers mid-year transfer students to succeed.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

taxes, systems like SSS offer thoughtful tax flexibility by allowing them to bypass irrelevant sections of the application, reducing confusion and making the experience more inclusive. For families who dont file U.S. The SSS platform was designed with accessibility and clarity in mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

to learn about instructional methods and administrative strategies to support Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other diverse student groups. Following instructions from the community’s elders, Umoja’s director of curriculum and instruction, dressed in a white dress with matching heels, stood behind the podium and addressed the room.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This law ensures that children with disabilities have access to individualized education programs (IEPs), specialized instruction, and necessary accommodations. Dr. Antonio L. Ellis is a senior professorial lecturer at American University School of Education and director of the Summer Institute on Education Equity and Justice

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MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. Inclusion becomes exclusionary the moment it dares to name race. But its follow-up was historic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Trump declared the countrys end to radical and wasteful government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and Dr. Mordecai Brownlee preferencing through executive order. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Over 69% of our students identify as students of color, and over 55% are first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Trump signed an executive order he called Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, instructing federal agencies to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and programs. She intentionally uses the words diversity, equity, and inclusion, instead of DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Trump's executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in federal government, affecting workers who previously participated in diversity training initiatives. At the Department of Energy, at least 14 employees have been placed on similar leave, with only three holding specific diversity and inclusion positions.

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MARCH 13, 2025

By prioritizing inclusivity and representation, these women are transforming cultural spaces into platforms for dialogue and understanding. The progress women have made in leadership roles is both inspiring and instructive, emphasizing the importance of resilience, collaboration, and elevating opportunities domestically and globally.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today’s students are interested in more instruction, experiential learning, credentialing, and career prospects in quantitative and computational fields. At the University of Richmond, we have responded to these demands by developing programming in data analytics, data science and computational research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

It aims to make universities shut down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices, ban mandatory diversity training, and restrict hiring departments from asking for diversity statements, all under the threat of temporarily cutting off access to state funds. Brandon Creighton Senate Bill 17 – filed by Sen. Judith Zaffirini.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

California community college professors are suing state officials, alleging that new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rules put in place violated their First Amendment rights, The Hill reported. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” I’m a professor of chemistry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Felicia Benton-Johnson Felicia Benton-Johnson has been appointed vice president for diversity and inclusive excellence at Clemson University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. It was originally conceived and developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and has since grown to more than 120 other colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

As president, he added that his goals include discerning which student age groups need more support and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Holyoke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cronin holds a doctorate in education with an emphasis on curriculum and instruction from the University of Sarasota; an M.S. With more than a decade of K-12 teaching experience, she has previously been vice president of academic affairs, dean of the School of Education, department chair, and professor at Indian River State College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

But with the recent recession in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across America, the notion of any kind of “soft landing” is misplaced – and dangerously misleading. One instructive example is the direct assault on the Fearless Fund , a venture capital firm that provides funding to businesses owned by women of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Following the ouster of then-president Patricia Okker, the board of trustees and administration eliminated the college’s Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence and its gender studies program. They also attacked tenure and imposed new admission standards and athletic programs absent meaningful faculty involvement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. There is also training on diversity, equity, and inclusion, featuring modules on implicit bias, intersectionality, and micro and mac ro- aggressions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

If institutions continue this pattern, baseline criteria for "inclusive excellence" within all campus program content will also remain unacceptable. Harvey, a nationally recognized scholar and academic leader, ultimately posits that limiting students’ access to the truth about themselves and historical realities is unacceptable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Dr. Kristin Redfield, an instructional coordinator for English at Forsyth Tech with 25 years of teaching experience, is co-director of the Piedmont Hub. Across all the [Hubs], we deal with AI, universal design for learning and retention of students, how do you talk to your students, how are you inclusive and welcoming.

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JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. Banks’ An Introduction to Multicultural Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Amidst these ongoing and widening challenges, college and university leaders have a responsibility to ensure they are supporting and fostering greater inclusion for LGBTQ+ students. A clearly articulated and well-publicized commitment to inclusion may have a dramatic impact within schools and universities. Dr. Dick Senese Here’s how.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Concepts on gender and sexual orientation recommended for inclusion in AP Psychology courses have been taught since the course began 30 years ago, the College Board said. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

The location of these centers matters, too. Whether a space for first-gen students is in the center or on the periphery of campus helps determine how many students find it—and sends a message about the university’s priorities.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I believe that this was in the third grade when my district tested all of the children for inclusion in the gifted education programs. 12. What curricular and instructional strategies, content, and materials promote critical thinking and problem solving while honoring the culture of Black students?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gloria Ladson-Billings, one of the world's most prolific educational researchers. Jamal Watson and included. Lewis, and Drs. Jerlando F.

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Active Minds

APRIL 13, 2023

Creating inclusive spaces for historically oppressed communities, like individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, is pivotal in facilitating a more just, and thus healthier, society. You can also take part in Day of Silence during non-instructional time, such as lunchtime or breaks between classes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous state legislatures are in the news recently, asking their campuses to report budgets and resources devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and for a list of the programs, services and efforts focused on DEI. Their goal? To identify and cut DEI in higher education.

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APRIL 2, 2023

With most classes enrolling fewer than 30 students, faculty can foster a sense of community in which students feel connected to their classmates, their instructors, and the institution while receiving more individualized instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Programs aimed at fostering interest in STEM from an early age, outreach initiatives targeting underprivileged communities, and partnerships with local businesses can all play a vital role in building a more inclusive and diverse workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., conceptually-based, rigorous, and equitable); and (c) create an inclusive classroom setting where all students can experience success, eliminating restrictive and segregated special education placements. curriculum and instruction, and assessment).

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