Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

The governor has even promoted the idea that teaching about anti-Black racism in U.S. If successful, they will not only erase African American history and culture from schools, but also limit educators’ academic freedom, women’s reproductive rights, marriage equality, immigrants’ rights, and progress on racial and gender diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is looking to enhance its student success coaching program as its student demographics change. Ruth Bauer White InsideTrack "What UMGC has shared with us is that their student demographics are changing,” said Steve Ast, senior vice president of partner success at InsideTrack.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And with those assets, she has sought to improve student success at CGU and help coach rising student affairs leaders amid issues of turnover and fatigue in the field. Carter’s psychology background plays an important role in understanding and helping CGU bolster its student inclusion and success efforts, Jessup says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

It is incumbent on faculty, most of whom are white, who say all the right things during interviews to pay more than lip service in doing “the work” to support success among Black college students. It is characterized by three dimensions: (1) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion Dr. Kelly A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. Participants are asked to respond to questions before and after broaching each new subject to assess the lesson’s impact, which Webb said is key to ensuring the program is a success. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At a time when faculty were teaching remotely and isolated from colleagues, they needed the same community and support that they were trying to provide for their students. Working together, faculty reflected on their Ascend data and identified SEP resources to support the constructs they wished to improve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Learning and Development Track. Her research interests include academic achievement, equity-mindedness, student success, and implementing teaching strategies that produce equitable learning outcomes for all students. She is the academic program director for the Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

These colleges understand that enrollment and graduation matter most when tied tightly to post-graduation success in transferring for a bachelor’s degree and in securing fulfilling, good-paying jobs and careers.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Sacramento State, which enrolls more Black students than any other CSU campus, plans to use the CSU funds to support faculty who will teach in the Black Honors College and provide release time for work to implement the initial program offerings. Luke Wood, adding that the Black Honors College will seek to reverse the trend.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 21, 2023

Aja created an entire plan to teach students about ASL and to teach the students how to sign a famous children’s book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See ? The post The Sweet Sound of Success: Dream Award Scholar Aja Leatherwood appeared first on Scholarship America. The students absolutely loved it!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2024

I felt incredibly honored by my own institution because not only do I teach there, but I went there.” My first thought was that I wanted to represent the faculty, those who have been in the trenches with me for years teaching and sometimes being underpaid.” Back when Black was a student there, the institution was Clark College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The institutions are combining their talents to create a 12-week certification course that will teach students how to use and sell medical devices. Not only are our instructors experts in anatomy, physiology, and surgical procedures, they have really successful careers as device representatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Eligible community colleges were past Bellwether award winners who demonstrated five or more years of evidence-based success, scalability, and replication. The success of this program led to an increase in student enrollment and additional resources for the college, strengthening their relationship with clinical partners. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

The NDC Board of Trustees secured agreements with nine partner colleges and universities to help current NDC students in good standing continue their college careers through a Teach-Out program or as a transfer student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The colleges will enter ATD’s Foundations of Transformation core engagement, an intensive three-year program, where they will work with ATD’s expert coaches to build essential capacities for student success, focusing on matters including equity, data, teaching and learning, leadership, community partnerships, and student supports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Because community colleges educate the fastest growing segments of our society, their success will go a long way toward determining the extent to which our nation and its people thrive. The bad news: graduation rates remain under 50%, and many students who do graduate are not set up for success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Congrats, colleagues!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Mendocino College hosts the Native Learning Symposium, a speaker series with local tribe representatives, Native American experts, elders, and educators to teach about the tribes in the Mendocino-Lake Community College District.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Adrianne Washington "It was difficult for me to think that I had a thriving Honors Program — our students find considerable success — but that there was a group of students who was invisible,” says Washington. They weren't a part of the success. There must be something that I'm missing. The Honors College is in its pilot stage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous two versions of the “Pickens Playbook” 7 College Readiness Moves to Make for Student Success and Year One at Tennessee State University (TSU) covered the journey of George Pickens during his last year at Miami Northwestern Senior High School and first year at Tennessee State University (TSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Cultural responsiveness in education involves tailoring policies and practices to meet the unique needs of students from various cultural backgrounds, fostering a sense of belonging, and creating pathways for success that resonate with everyone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

We cannot let DEI sabotage our country’s fundamental values of hard work and meritocracy, teaching our children that it’s acceptable to judge each other based on race or sex.” Russell said the hearing illustrated opponents of diversity on college campuses have no interest in the success of all students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

The campaign, initiated by the student international officers of the college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, uses evidence-based statistics and first-hand success stories to spread the message that community colleges offer a smart option for individuals to achieve their educational goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

I define academic acumen as a wide range of knowledge and skills related to teaching, research, and knowledge creation within the higher education context. It also requires developing policies that seek equity in teaching and learning. Boards of trustees must reflect and support DEI efforts at institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

The consequences of underfunding HBCUs are severe for not just Black communities but our nation’s overall economic health, as students at under-resourced schools face greater obstacles to future career success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“I really was able to learn quite a bit about the challenges and barriers that so many students face in accessing higher education,” says McManus, who also dabbled in admissions before getting the opportunity to teach developmental English as an adjunct instructor. Dr. Kimberly O. By 2000, McManus was ready to relocate to Maryland.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Accelerator Model as an Innovation for Student Success First-year students sometimes have difficulties adjusting to college’s academic demands, and Dr. Renick’s team noted that freshmen struggled even more during the pandemic. We handpicked instructors who are particularly effective in teaching introductory-level courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Jeff Alton, assistant director of the Asian American Cultural Center and one of the grant’s co-PIs, will teach a class for the program’s mentors and is currently doing revisions and preparing to launch the first-class next year, Rola says. As it stands now, Chang is the only faculty member who teaches Asian studies at the Hartford campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. Fuentes investigates educator experiences, including the experiences of educators of color in K-12 schools and in higher education settings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To study the elements causing success—or failure—in gateway math courses, a team of researchers at Education Equity Solutions (EES), an organization focused on higher ed policy reform, examined records for over 22,000 students at four California community colleges. He tries to avoid this in his own teaching. “I That doesn’t work.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

On Wednesday, Alabama A&M University, the largest HBCU in the state, launched an effort to tackle the problem: AAMUTeach, a program allowing STEM majors to get a secondary school teaching certification while earning a bachelor’s, without any additional time or cost. If the student likes teaching, they can move to the rest of the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

These include enrollment management, student success, fundraising and endowment, infrastructure, technology, and facilities; and academic program relevance. Most high schools now don't teach civics anymore,” said Ward, who is one of the HBCU Center’s senior fellows. We’ve got to teach civics.”

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Knack

MAY 23, 2024

This partnership aims to leverage the strengths of both organizations to further our shared recruitment, leadership, and career development efforts for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Emil Guillermo The best answer may be this: “I want to be part of a university that knows its role is to engage and teach students to solve problems using intellect and knowledge.” Administrators can use the opportunity to teach the students, as well as learn who their students are, and what they believe politically. Fear encampments?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Njumbe’s ability to teach himself and process new information isn’t just restricted to math, science, or other STEM courses, which he said are his favorite. He began teaching himself Mandarin Chinese because of his interest in Taekwondo. He taught himself classical music on the piano between ages 3 and 4.

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