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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HBCU students not only attended this year’s conference, but they participated in a service project and built bookshelves and delivered over 450 books to a local elementary school in Cancun that did not have a library until last week. That local community outreach in the host country of the conference, Lewis added, is critically important. “We

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Dr. Toby S. Jenkins, University of South Carolina

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jenkins other community outreach initiatives won awards from the President of the United States and the Governor of Maryland. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institutions Center for Community Wellbeing and a faculty trainer with the University of Southern Californias Race & Equity Center.

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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

They gain skills in organization and community outreach as they promote the drive, coordinate donation sites, and manage collected items. Coordinating a book drive to collect winter reading materials will teach students about the importance of literacy and access to educational resources in their community.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We spend an hour with parent/family liaisons and community outreach coordinators who instruct us on the importance of reading at home to overcome vocabulary gaps or how to navigate systems at school. content, books events, topics, issues). Black families frequently arrive at school to be treated like students themselves.

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Exploring the Roots of Racial Bias

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is rooted in the book The Nature of Prejudice by Dr. Gordon Allport in 1954. Her lab actively does community outreach to collaborate with schools and community partners like EmbraceRace, an organization that supports parents in raising children to be informed and thoughtful about race.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Meanwhile, public expectations about the kind of diverse, immersive, interactive, participatory, and technology-enhanced exhibits museums should offer escalate, while their educational and community outreach responsibilities mount. A recent book by Daniel H. I totally disagree.

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Much as Enlightenment ideas spread across the late 18 th century Atlantic world with the help of pamphlets, printed books, magazines, and political songs and through literary salons, scientific academies, fraternal lodges, and coffeehouses, we, too, have witnessed the circulation of new ideas and perspectives.