Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Programs that blend financial literacy with discussions on community impact, for example, help Latino men see the connections between economic policy and civic engagement.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It wasn’t until I became an adult that I realized that from all of the life lessons learned in our low income household, financial literacy was not one of them. In my journey to seek generational wealth so did a rising devotion to teaching financial literacy to Blacks and Brown communities. Borrowing from the U.S.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

Whats new is that the federal government is now using that logic to impose structural amnesiareplacing racial literacy with silence, and calling it merit. If we cannot name, we cannot teach. And if we cannot teach, we cannot build the critical literacies that this moment demands. Weve seen this before.

Compliance

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2025

Alumni oral histories from the 1970s record a laundress named Mrs. Pinkney who, after a ten-hour washday, stayed to drill younger pupils—teaching fractions to a teenage sugar-field hand so he could tally harvest wages. Faith alone can’t foot the bill.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program. As a visiting professor, Rahman also teaches a similar course called Critical Muslim Studies.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2025

The Trump administration's Office of Management and Budget, led by Russell Vought, has suggested the funding freeze is part of an investigation into whether money has been used for what it calls a "radical leftwing agenda," including scholarships for undocumented students or teachings on LGBTQ topics.

Title IV

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Phil Murphy will be receiving a media literacy bill from the New Jersey Senate to sign, a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to mandate information literacy education for all K-12 students. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3 Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To be provided with a program that teaches us how to be successful investors on our own, along with a seeded account, is a huge deal. Creating awareness Financial literacy among college-going students has been a concern among many experts.

Literacy

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.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

If you're going to go take geometry in the fall, we'll go ahead and teach you geometry in the summer, so that when you get to the fall course, this is not your first time seeing the material. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

Literacy

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. It suggests that AI has had an increasingly significant impact on legal education. The survey also found that 69% of institutions have adapted their academic integrity policies in response to generative AI.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Stevenson's presentation focused on racial literacy regarding fitting in and belonging for Black men and boys. He also elaborated on his Preventing Long-term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY) project, which focuses on teaching youth to identify their anger, frustration, and stress as they work to reduce negative behaviors.

Mental health

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.

Literacy

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). We need to teach our students the places we’re likely to see bias in a particular discipline,” says Scott. “I I teach business law, and I know about areas of law where there is structured bias built into that law.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, perceived learning difficulties may result from limited access to academic opportunities, a lack of culturally relevant teaching, low-quality teaching, and resource inequalities. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., Dr. Donna Y.

Education

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. It also allowed me to teach and connect with students even if it was online,” she continued.

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Thanks to a new change in America’s federal work-study program, thousands more students like Halima could soon become tutors in America’s public schools to aid in the national pandemic learning recovery — and potentially diversify our nation’s teaching workforce. Jilo Tisdale On May 10, 2023, US Department of Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. I now see healthy conflicts in my classrooms as a powerful way to reinforce lessons about honesty, civility and information literacy. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. The year: 2008.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And in recent years, Registered Apprenticeship (RA) programs have grown, increasing 73% since 2 009 and expanding past traditional trades into areas like teaching, social work, and cybersecurity.

Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. With an eye toward longevity, he also plans to teach criminology/criminal justice from, as he puts it, “the pedagogical lens of a directly impacted person.”

Community college

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.

Literacy

Castleton Trio

MAY 8, 2020

Through the ASC’s TRIO Tuesdays and Financial Literacy workshops, she learned about college life and financial aid opportunities. She has also served as a financial literacy mentor, organizing the very sessions that proved so useful to her. This winter, as a TRIO Program Assistant, she oversaw a team of financial literacy mentors.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This period was characterized by an increasing emphasis on computer literacy and the integration of technology into both curriculum and administrative processes. The integration of technology into the curriculum opened new avenues for teaching and learning, allowing for more flexible and innovative educational experiences.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Also, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program connects students with faculty in their field of study. “A

Retention

EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

However, despite district leaders investing significant time and resources on teaching reading, they often see few lasting results. Higher Education Inadequately Prepares Teachers to Teach Reading Effectively Teacher preparation programs rarely prepare educators to teach reading. These barriers are probably why.

Literacy

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

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). Indeed, “one of the defining characteristics of current U.S.

Facilitation

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.

Tutoring

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.

Higher education

EAB

MAY 25, 2023

The group included representatives from many parts of campus, including Associate Deans, the Provost’s Office, the Teaching and Learning Commons, Faculty Senate Committee Chairs, the Registrar’s Office, faculty, and several others, which gave us a wide range of perspectives. The data and analyses are not going to be perfect.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. Teacher Preparation Programs must implement culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain Black males into teaching. Dr. Erik M.

Advising

Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But regardless of which classes you teach, there are plenty of ways to help your students with their college essays. Consider including technology and digital literacy in your classroom. That way, it’s easy for students to find colleges that fit their needs.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

Literacy

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

It might not necessarily be feasible for all classes, but it would certainly reduce some of the pressure on first-year experience programs as all classes would essentially be part of a proactive retention and high-impact teaching/learning mix. Employability. Career services departments have a tremendous responsibility. High Tech, High Touch.

Retention

Scholly

AUGUST 10, 2022

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. But, for many people, things like a lack of financial literacy and a poor money mindset play a role. Do you know how to do that? We got you!

Students

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. In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. We've been doing that one for five years now.

Mental health

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.

Higher education