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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tressie McMillan Cottom wants her work to meet people where they are, and to do so, she uses many platforms and intersects multiple disciplines. Then, on the other hand, the fact that a lot of education doesn't work out great for all of us. However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture.

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National University Students Given Access to Work-Based Learning Via Online Platform

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For the past three years, students at National University (NU) have been given the chance to bolster their in-classroom learning with integrated real-world work experience via a partnership between NU and work-based learning platform Riipen. Through Riipen, these students also receive feedback from their employers. “As

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. 5) No one who works at your university and has any power over your life is a true friend. 5) No one who works at your university and has any power over your life is a true friend. Strive to improve boundaries with co-workers; work is not family. (6)

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How We Engaged Our Community in Suicide Prevention Through Fundraising

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Life for us turned upside down on Feb. That was when we decided that we had to turn our pain into purpose, and found Active Minds, who helped us engage our community thoughtfully in suicide prevention through fundraising. To us and the world, he was a bundle of endless energy, extremely motivated, and full of life.

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Emerging Scholars Express Hope, Validation, and Drive During Webinar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To be able to be recognized on this level for the work that I do is really validating. The work that we're doing is what allows other students and people who come after us to be here." I think that it's important to do that work as resisting the gatekeeping that exists inherently in academia." Jamal Watson.

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Have You Told Yourself, “I Love You,” Today?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A ritual I adopted during COVID-19 to remind me that I am more than just my job and the work I produce. Their deaths have garnered much attention for passing away while on the job, followed by words of “embodying hard work,” “total commitment,” “outspoken,” and “numerous roles in serving.” I love myself, my body, and my mind.”

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Diversity, Equity and Student Success Conference Plots Agenda for the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s been a really nice space to come together with other people who are working on the same agenda, but to also see that even though we are far away in England, there are so many shared commonalities,” she said. “We We are all experiencing the same problems.” to restrict DEI efforts and to do away with certain words and phrases.