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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). LAs were recruited by both personal invitation from the college faculty as well as traditional means through campuswide job postings. LAs can increase their own content knowledge and intellectual competence (Gomez Johnson et al., 2021; Close et al., Ellerbrock, C.,

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in 2003 – and 7.5% Among these suggestions were calls for corporations to implement inclusive hiring practices and diversity in leadership; and a need for higher ed to recruit Latino faculty in engineering and tech. rise from 7% to 13.6%. On the graduate level, Latino students were 9.4% of engineering doctorate recipients.

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First African American Dean Blazes Trail for Northwestern Music

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Montgomery, who joined Northwestern in 2003, said she was also the first African American dean at the University of Kansas, serving in its School of Fine Arts. The dean of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music was the first woman in the role and first African American dean at the university in general.

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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I remember riding the bus home from work one day and I saw someone with the Central Michigan University bumper sticker, and so I applied because I recognized the bumper sticker,” says Patterson-Stephens, who graduated in 2003 from CMU with a degree in sociology.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Minority stress theory, coined by Ilan Meyer (2003), articulates empirically supported findings where marginalized sociodemographic groups experience increased risk for distress due to more frequent and deleterious experiences of discrimination, harassment, systemic oppression / barriers, stigmatization and social isolation. Dandeneau, S.,

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