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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s scholarship in a different form.” In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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Championing Student Success

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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. For her part, Rahming, a native of The Bahamas, has not abandoned her scholarship. The concept is quite simple. I am still doing my research.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

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So, in addition to delivering instruction that focuses on skills, technique and emerging technologies, we must also provide safe and inclusive space for students to explore visual storytelling in service to critical issues.” We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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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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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. We have also increased the financial support for those students that will help them access emergency funds, paid internships and more scholarships.

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

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There will be ongoing coverage of the end of affirmative action in admissions, says Dr. Stella Flores, an associate professor in the departments of Educational Leadership and Policy and Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

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instructional practices, curriculum development, teacher-student relationships, classroom climate, etc.) This concept also argues that implementing culturally responsive teaching practices (i.e., promotes agency, resistance, and liberation for Black students.

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