Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Miguel Cardona Funding to the tune of $179 million in new grants is now available to help improve literacy and academic achievement nationwide, according to officials from the U.S. The new Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant is $149 million to be awarded to 23 states to advance effective, evidence-based literacy practices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

About 55% of law schools that responded reported that they offer classes dedicated to teaching students about AI. Eighty-three percent of responding law schools reported the availability of curricular opportunities for students to learn how to use AI tools effectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Morehouse psychology student Steven Riley responded to what he learned from Watkins’ research. “I Stevenson's presentation focused on racial literacy regarding fitting in and belonging for Black men and boys. We want them to thrive, learn, live, grow, develop, and have seemingly normal, regula Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough r, happy lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. Dr. Joseph F. Provost Dr. Janice L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We use the term and notion of resegregation in special education to describe the overrepresentation of Students of Color in special education, an issue that continues to persist today. In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. To get my students thinking, I gave them a discussion prompt: If old enough, do you plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election? My students came to class ready to rumble. My students’ fiery exchanges surprised me. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Halima Monds was a first-year student at Spelman College when she joined SpelREADS , a program that pairs undergraduate tutors with students in Atlanta Public Schools to help boost their reading ability. If a student is not reading on grade level, that’s a pipeline to prison. And yet, there’s reason for hope.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly slowed Moore’s research and her ability to train her students.

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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. The program allows students to work on their own timelines, from one year to four.

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Good Tutors Finder

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How a Tutor Can Help a Student With Dyslexia: Empowering Success Through Specialized Support Dyslexia affects millions of students worldwide, influencing how they process language and making tasks such as reading, spelling, and writing more challenging. Get Started Why Tutoring is Essential for Students With Dyslexia 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

year prison sentence, Cordero Holmes could not see his future as a great dad, Honors College student, or recipient of the MLK Living the Dream Award for community service in his old neighborhood. Over seven years, 40,000 students participated in SCP programs in 48 states, Washington, D.C., In 2015, the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the start of this summer, I gave a keynote at the annual AMICAL Conference titled ‘Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times’ Yesterday, AMICAL kindly posted the videos from the conference, so I am sharing links to the keynote and to the conference here. AMICAL Conference 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Dr. Jack Thomas In my own journey, leading a campus with such diverse student representation has reinforced the importance of embracing diversity and fostering a culture of inclusivity. This period witnessed a remarkable increase in minority enrollments and the establishment of support programs designed to cater to diverse student bodies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Castleton Trio

MAY 8, 2020

Through the ASC’s TRIO Tuesdays and Financial Literacy workshops, she learned about college life and financial aid opportunities. As a sophomore, she started a chapter of the Student Education Association; since then, she has served as its president. She believes her experiences will help her serve students. “I

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

However, despite district leaders investing significant time and resources on teaching reading, they often see few lasting results. Poor reading outcomes are costly for students, with unaddressed issues causing future learning and personal problems. Low reading proficiency costs districts, as well.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Accountability comes in many forms: to state or governing agencies, students, key performance indicators, operating measures, and more. educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3).

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Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Teachers can help prepare students for the real world. Here are some ways that teachers can help students be successful in their future endeavors. Preparing for graduation and next steps can be stressful for your students. In fact, the United States has more stressed students than any other country.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

While some leaders expressed apprehension, most are eager to explore opportunities and applications of AI in higher education—from democratizing and personalizing teaching and learning to drastically increasing our operational efficiency.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

However, with a deeper glance, it’s the connections between these areas that are the strands that form essential aspects of the student experience. Student Success. Student engagement is everything when it comes to student success. Engagement is what creates a meaningful student experience. Employability.

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Catherine Cronin

APRIL 14, 2023

Higher Education for Good #HE4Good The book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures , co-edited with Laura Czerniewicz, is due to be openly published in mid-2023. In this first short post I’ll summarise my presentation Hi gher Education for Good: Criticality, resistance and hope.

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EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Louis Slimak, Associate Provost at West Virginia University In today’s fast-changing environment, program review is an increasingly critical area of focus and the first step in delivering a portfolio that meets the institution’s goals and students’ needs. Want to connect your assessment of learning findings to other student performance data?

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Scholly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Sticking to a budget is NOT easy or fun – especially if you’re a college student or fresh graduate on a low income. In this blog post, we’re gonna teach you how to budget money on a low income by sharing our favorite budgeting strategies that go beyond the common advice you may be used to (e.g. Let’s be honest. Well… it can be.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Dr. Erik M. Hines, E.M.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. And so how do they find the right students to bring to their campus and who are a good fit? Transcript [music] 0:00:12.4 music] 0:00:46.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

All higher education professionals from HBCUs across the country, we are among the inaugural cohort of Teaching in an Inequitable Society fellows, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children Black Caucus and the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College. Well done, SCOTUS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in today’s student population.

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SRI Education

JULY 28, 2023

As researchers, we were curious about which students were most likely to be bullied and/or to become bullies. Bounce Back helps K–5 students who are experiencing traumatic stress symptoms. Explicitly discuss bullying scenarios and teach a culture of empathy to students. Do Black students misbehave more? Jaddoe, V.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

The letter demanded a comprehensive restructuring of Harvards governance, hiring, admissions, and student life. It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. If we cannot name, we cannot teach. Weve seen this before.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Secondary and postsecondary institutions that connect student learning with real opportunities for economic mobility and community leadership will not only validate their identities but also empower them to make informed choices as engaged citizens. Dr. Victor B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

Mike Hoa Nguyen As a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut Hartford, Dr. Qazi Arka Rahman leads a Critical Refugee Studies course that encourages students to see refugees as more than simply victims, objects of rescue, problems, and crises. He published his fi ndings in a 2024 study for The Review of Higher Education.

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