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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Collier, Z.,

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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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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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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But offering dual-enrollment courses comes at a cost for many community colleges because of discounted tuition rates for high school students and extra expenses associated with these courses, among other financial challenges, according to a new working paper by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

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This week we look set to see these challenges increase with the possible increase in the base interest rates by the Bank of England (the “Bank Rate”) to 5.5% At present the Bank of England Bank Rate is 5.3% and so the spread between the student loan rate and the Bank Rate was 2%. The PMR was set at 7.3%