Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

The strategic plan became a focus on coaching, teaching and learning, and data. The faculty get this sense of curiosity and personal reflection that helps them to improve course design that then improves outcomes for more students. Its not just the classroom; you need to have the support services, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

During that summer, we’re not only doing the academic part, but also teaching them skills in terms of how to negotiate campus.” Another pressing issue, he says, is the cost of education in terms of how it is impacting low-income, first-generation students.

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The LTC Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

The Carleton TRIO/SSS staff have put together some great resources for faculty about how to acknowledge class in the classroom and helping students become self-regulated learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We have a very good sense of what the student is interested in, because there’s been very strategic advising throughout the years and throughout the summers to help students identify what their goals are.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I was overjoyed to have the concrete example of what these educators were willing to do for their students, for free (and often putting their own money in), in the midst of their own upended lives. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students.

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Close the Gap Foundation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Then, I took a shot at teaching. I was worried I wasn’t going to like it but I got lucky because I know some people go into teaching as a back-up and then, they hate it and find something else to do. What do you enjoy the most about teaching? Some people are completely leaving teaching.

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Close the Gap Foundation

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Sharing similar motivations, Rhonda found Close the Gap as an opportunity to give back and help first-generation, low-income students. Rhonda taught English to high school students before becoming a high school counselor, primarily to English as a Second Language (ESL) students. I was a later student.

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Close the Gap Foundation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

During her time as an accountant, Magret trained employees and discovered her passion for teaching and helping people. What do you enjoy the most about teaching? MN: Teaching is very stressful. In my program, I work individually with my students. What does working with FGLI students mean to you?

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The LTC Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Tanner, “Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity”, CBE–Life Sciences Education 2013 and “Acknowledging Class in the Classroom ” by Carleton TRIO/SSS staff). Let students know that these resources are not just for students who are struggling.

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Student Research Foundation

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the eyes of many college admissions officials, the “perfect” applicant is a student who has a top GPA, near- perfect scores on the ACT or SAT tests , and whose family is ready and able to pay full tuition. How many students are you teaching or counseling who can meet all those criteria? But let’s face reality.

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Close the Gap Foundation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mentors can also encourage a two-way teaching moment for the mentees to give technological advice to mentors who might not be too familiar with online platforms like Discord. Start meetings with fun and interesting questions. Change virtual backgrounds and profile pictures occasionally. Ask questions. Pick up on the small details.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” My new role as the president of COE is both exhilarating and daunting as I know I will encounter new challenges that have broad implications for our students.

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The LTC Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The strongest predictor of overall performance in writing-rich courses (as measured by GPA) was the number of terms that the student used the Writing Center. The results were striking.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

I'm teaching people welding and diesel mechanics and electrical engineering, and those things are wonderful, but those students aren't reading a lot of classic literature. Depending on what you tell me is going on with you, I will come back with, ‘Have you read Tolstoy? Do you know about this Dickens novel?’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In California, where affirmative action has been banned since 1996, the state university system (UC) began to focus on increasing socioeconomic diversity, introducing policies that connected more directly with low-income students and those from lower-performing schools.

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COE

MAY 10, 2023

Grant teaches English and Drama at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island, the same school from which she and Viola graduated and where in 2016, the street leading to the school was renamed “Viola Davis Way.” Wright, the oldest of the Davis sisters, worked for the federal government for 40 years before her retirement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Broadly speaking, the areas where faculty typically have had autonomy and academic freedomcurriculum, deciding who teaches what subjects and researchcould be impacted by anti DEI agendas. In the first year, 68 school districts and individual charter schools were invited to participate with a focus on low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Colleges and universities are the places that, almost uniquely in our society, are structured to explore and open up understanding of human differences, to learn about the history and psychology and language and beliefs of many different populations, to teach our future leaders how to lead communities from tension to harmony despite differences.

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