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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Three Principles for Navigating This Time of Transformational Change in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technology enables us to break the barriers of time and space to deliver quality instruction directly to students, when and where they prefer. Depending on whom you ask, you will get wildly different views on the state of the American university. Some will tell you it is a moment of exhilarating promise and possibilities.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Throughout the association’s existence, Black AERA presidents have steadily pushed for more inclusivity and to urge panel sessions that focused on racial inequities and racism within the field. Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. That was that if you get inside the door, your job is to hold it open for somebody else.”

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. It affirms that our commitment to institutional change initiatives and educational and inclusive excellence is creating the conditions necessary for accelerating Latinx student success and college completion.”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Waller does not come from an engineering background, but when he began studying for his master’s degree in counseling and human development, he found himself fascinated with engineering, which led him to Virginia Tech for his doctoral studies in curriculum instruction. His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs.

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HBCU Advancement Teams: Don't Underestimate the Power of the Individual Donor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through the lens of the individual donor, we must take note of a few other points that may be instructive for advancement professionals who seek to better understand and make connections with this category of contributors. And herein lies our greatest opportunity. Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Sr.

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