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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks to serve as president. It was an incredible breakthrough,” says Banks, who is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus. He also was the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice.

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An Outsider’s View, Self-Worth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” Amara Banks, a current law student at Yale, says that Chua has set an important example in life: “You can do whatever you want as a lawyer, as an academic, and as a woman of color.” “I I find every single one interesting,” says Chua.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Therefore, we conducted empirical research to study the extent that anti-racist teachers can disrupt resegregation in special education , using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-2011. Banks - The father of multicultural education: In these troubling anti-EDI times. Prufrock Press. Gillborn, D.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Food Bank, Compton College offers a mobile food pantry. In 2005, Curry took a job at Compton College in an entry-level position within student services, ultimately working his way through the ranks of leadership to become interim president in 2011.

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Harvard Professor Convicted for Hiding Chinese Money Retires

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Lieber hasn’t yet been sentenced for his December 2021 convictions for knowingly making false statements to the federal government, willfully filing false tax returns and willfully not disclosing that he had authority over a Chinese bank account. He was set to be sentenced March 2, but that is being rescheduled. Zobel, a U.S.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2011, the Education Department issued a Dear Colleague letter (DCL) allowing institutions to pay a percentage of tuition revenue to providers of a bundle of services that included marketing and recruiting. The department should revoke the 2011 DCL. Second, the risk profile has changed.