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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating. We’re doing what works for Latino students in our community, and it gives us the opportunity to show the community this is where you can come, learn and be successful,” says Moreno.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. campaign included aspects beyond the classroom, such as an extracurricular forum that would tackle issues that derive directly from the mouths of female students.

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio.

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Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help

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I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. I’ve read about LGBTQ+ college student organizations either being dismantled or denied formation. What can college leaders do to help?

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Attending the MLK Civil Rights Lecture at Hope

Hope College Network

Paul encouraged us to join him on his “King year 2016,” by presenting us a “3-point challenge,” which includes the following: Identify who you are Develop some substance Light up the Tower of Hope Now is the time to think about how you view yourself and whether or not your identity is rooted in something other than the surface level.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. The National Labor Relations Board certified the election, which was years in the making.

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