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Webinar: AI Can Bolster DEI Efforts in the Workplace and Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Artificial intelligence, if created and implemented responsibly, can help increase diverse, equitable, and inclusive recruitment and retention, DEI specialist Shayne Halls said during a University of Phoenix webinar Thursday. The event took place as part of University of Phoenix's Educational Equity Webinar Series.

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Webinar: How to Build Culturally Validating and Affirming Relationships Between Educators and Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building culturally validating and affirming relationships between teachers and students requires plenty of understanding, engagement, changes in behavior, and introspection, according to a webinar held Tuesday by the Equity Assistance Center-South. Educators will do well to also consider students’ parents, he added.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. Dr. Louis Sullivan The webinar, "Fireside Chat: A Half Century of Equity in Medicine," kicked off with a discussion with Dr. “Only 5.7%

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New Paper Examines Funding of Attacks on Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AAUP President Dr. Irene Mulvey made this case in a May 22 statement durimh the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing with higher education administrators.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.” There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mossberger presented her research at a webinar hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a membership organization that advances the democratic purpose of higher education. Angela Thi Bennett, digital equity director with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “We

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4 ways to look at AI’s growth on campus

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Students are, in fact, more worried than faculty or administrators that the technology is “short-cutting their learning” and they want more guidance, according to a new study and survey from plagiarism checker Turnitin. Students share some of the same concerns as educators do about the growth of AI on campus.