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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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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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 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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Community colleges are designed to serve and meet the needs of the communities where they reside. That’s why Hudson County Community College (HCCC) has decided to offer a certificate of proficiency in social justice and an A.S. degree in Human Services, Social Justice Advocacy. “We

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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

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 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

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The academy and the classroom are, in fact, sites of power, privilege, and hierarchy (one hopes rooted in expertise) – and a key purpose of the new language of social justice is to invert power relations, lay bare previously unrecognized power dynamics, and challenge established authority and assumptions.

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Dr. Al Solano

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

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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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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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 17, 2022

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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 12, 2023

Burnette teaches us, they cannot seek to impose their own views of social justice on to their charges. They can run programs to help traditionally under-represented populations thrive in the university setting. They can discipline students who cause actual harm to others. But, as West Virginia v.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Educational researchers as technicians or social justice warriors Especially in the field of education research, Professor Labaree advises up and coming scholars to steer clear of two siren calls: The Scylla of excessively narrow technical or quantified research and the Charybdis of a politically motivated research agenda.

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Dr. Al Solano

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, some university researchers have convinced themselves (and policy makers too) that counting words on college documents and websites is an effective methodology to make assumptions about practice. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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