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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Specifically, school counselors are trained to identify barriers to optimal educational success by reviewing data to develop a plan to address opportunity gaps. It is essential to provide teachers with professional development workshops, strategies, and resources to become culturally competent in their dispositions, knowledge, and skills.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training.

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TMCF and Hennessy Announce Fifth Cohort of Hennessy Fellows Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and alcohol company Hennessy have announced the fifth cohort of the Hennessy Fellows Program , which aims to prepare the next generation of Black leaders via financial assistance, training, and professional development.

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Succession Planning in HBCUs Ensures Long-Term Sustainability

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Professional development programs: Once high-potential individuals are identified, strategic professional development programs should be implemented to enhance their leadership capabilities.

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‘To diary or not to diary’? – lessons learned from the SRHE workshop ‘Using Diary Method in Social Research’

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by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad. And now what?

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The Anti-DEI Backlash: Crisis Facing Chief Diversity Officers in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Several months ago, a fellow CDO confided in me about his abrupt reassignment from a leadership role to a non-administrator position with little connection to DEI work. Professional networks and organizations offer invaluable support for CDOs.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

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Then, the same small group of us were invited by our dean’s office to put together a professional development event, which was on Zoom, which we called Faculty Sharing Circles, where we invited faculty to come and we put them into Zoom breakout rooms,” she continues. We’ve continued to offer professional development,” she said. “We

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