Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 28, 2023

Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, will begin offering a Black Studies degree. The school is also working out transfer agreements with four-years colleges, such as the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston University, and HBCUs. But for this to happen at the community college level is very significant.

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Living the Dream Award for his devotion to social justice and community service. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Kelli Sims Butler The California Community College System consists of 116 institutions with over 1.8 In the system, there are 140 Community College Chief Executive Officers (CEO). Of the current 140 chancellors and college presidents, 63 are female, and 12 identify as Black females. million students. King, Jamal A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Kelley’s notion of the “ Freedom Dream ,” an invitation to imagine an educational space that is grounded in racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation. And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

” While abolition is not new to organizing or academe, she said, “it is newer to social work as a growing movement,” and Dettlaff is a “leader in thinking through what abolition means for social work and a new way of envisioning how we want to embody our values of social justice and antiracism.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

With a strong succession plan, HBCUs can ensure a smooth transition of leadership, cultivate a pipeline of diverse and visionary leaders, and continue to fulfill their vital mission of empowering generations of students and advancing social justice. Christine Johnson McPhail serves as president of Saint Augustine’s University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Ridgewater College

JANUARY 19, 2022

To bridge the college family with Ridgewater’s neighboring communities through broader diversity awareness, Schwandt and her DEI office are launching several spring virtual social justice speakers beginning January 19. Spring Social Justice Virtual Zoom Series: Wed., Look for li nks at [link].).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella also wants to improve the pathways for students attending community colleges. “We We’re looking at how we create this inclusive and equitable environment using a social justice platform in order to positively impact various populations on campus,” says Davis. We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

mprutter@mit.edu Tue, 11/21/2023 - 03:00 AM How to be rigorous academically, while advancing the goals of social justice and equity. Can You Be an Activist and a Serious Scholar? Byline(s) Steven Mintz

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The great irony of this situation is that USF is a Jesuit institution, a university built on the premise of shepherding the Ignatian tradition of social justice and intellectual inquiry in an evolving world. Meanwhile, antisemitism and manifold racism is on the rise across institutions of higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a North Carolina State University professor who alleged the university retaliated against him for speaking his mind and opposing some of the university’s social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

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Dr. Al Solano

MAY 19, 2023

About Dr. Dayamudra Dennehy Dr. Dayamudra Dennehy, is an ESL tenured faculty at City College of San Francisco. She’s active in a network of California community college educators, and serves as her college's Distance Education Coordinator. It just kills the love and the joy."

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” It must also: “Analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression and opportunity,” and “Apply the principles of rights, access, equity and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

There would be people focused on social justice who are totally focused on increasing the diversity of the community … and they would all accept and respect the others rather than saying, ‘You have to be of my type to be a real mathematician. There would be incredible teachers with all kinds of innovative ideas.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But it does mean that he combines open-mindedness with a critical sensibility, and a staunch commitment to viewpoint pluralism and empiricism with an emphasis on social justice. In his view, this isn’t just a matter of social justice or equity. Is the representativeness problem a matter of social justice?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

The students raised their concerns about the group to the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees in a meeting last month. The group has been criticized by colleagues for holding inflammatory events and making offensive comments on social media. They were invited by Parks, who was presenting the idea.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Leaders and employees at De Anza College, the community college where Lee has been working on contract as a tenure-track faculty member, didn’t comment Thursday. ” Lee provided a letter that O’Neill wrote Friday to the community college district’s Board of Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Other initiatives at Belmont include a recent collaboration with Fisk University, a historically Black liberal arts college in Nashville, to promote social justice through “exposure to civil rights and social justice movements across Middle Tennessee.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

Montclair’s Office of Social Justice and Diversity, for example, wanted to be recognized as a public space, so it added a microwave and requested its addition to the Pit Stop Map. Driving on: In the future, Talamo hope to get further university buy-in on creating commuter spaces.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are many resources available, including organizations such as Western States Center , Facing History & Ourselves , the Southern Poverty Law Center , and Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab , and students would benefit greatly from colleges developing partnerships with these types of social justice organizations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Others questioned the point of the revival and whether it will lead to meaningful, long-term changes when worshippers go back to their church communities at a time of polarized politics and calls for racial justice. “God is sovereign,” Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arkansas, tweeted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Looking at responses by institution type, 56 percent of four-year college students say they’ve gotten this kind of advice, compared to 49 percent of community college students. “Holistically advising a student based on their individual needs is key to redesigning the way we advise,” adds Kenion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The move comes not long after the college’s journalism and sports program became an official major in July of 2021 in which students can earn a bachelor’s degree from the department of Journalism in Sports, Culture and Social Justice.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Another example is Dartmouth College’s recent laughable, but sad rationale to reinstate the SAT/ACT because their internal “research” shows they would effectively be more equitable for low-income students. The teaching could be horrible, but these students have the social capital to succeed on their own. 2021-22: 95.6%

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College Forward

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Big picture, I want students to have those “aha” moments that build their enthusiasm and momentum for college. I remember writing my college essay on the importance of music in my life and how the various social justice projects I was involved in were connected to civil rights songs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities. From 2021–22, the Pillars Scholars program helped increase Dominican’s retention of African American students by 30 percent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including UC Irvine’s Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award, the Social Science Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Mentorship, and the UCI Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Faculty Mentorship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the goals of public humanities training programs vary, the report says, the programs tend to share four interrelated goals: offering students the opportunity to act on civic and social justice commitments through the humanities, training current and future faculty members in publicly engaged methods to shape the future of humanities disciplines, (..)

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 17, 2022

About Maritez Apigo For over two decades, Maritez has taught English and ESL in community colleges, high schools, and middle schools in California and in Hawaii. She trains faculty in online teaching pedagogy at the college, district, and state levels. Access Transcript ]. Podcast Homepage

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

It gives job applicants clear guidelines that help them move past trite statements about social justice and political posturing. This approach gives search committees important information about a candidate’s ability to do the job well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Some are more ideological, touching on interfaith, sustainability, conflict resolution, leadership or social justice. Others still are identity-focused groups for students belonging to different communities, including LGBTQ+, Asian and Pacific Islander, Indigenous , Hispanic/Latino , African or African American, and Middle Eastern.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

I think it is an unfair premise to think that an institution after 150 years is going to open the doors [to] the widest aperture of faith communities right at its first effort of opening the doors at all.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Politics, we’re told, is war by other means, and the controversies that swirl around cultural appropriation are thinly veiled ways to discuss issues regarding race, equity, cultural identity, and social justice in a context in which identities have grown more fluid even as racial, class, and other disparities remain deeply entrenched.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

” The BESC letter went on to state: “Your deep belief in equity and social justice, grounded in the Principles of Community, has led USF to extraordinary achievements in a relatively short period of time. You harnessed your courageous leadership by collaborating with campus partners and particularly BESC.

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