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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” 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. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. They’re on a journey.

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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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

Experiential Learning Depot

Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Through planning and organizing this service-learning project, students develop responsibility, compassion, and communication skills as they coordinate with residents and work in teams. A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. Part of the CPE’s role is to bring about a positive return on the investment of public funds in higher education.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among her many achievements during her 20 years at the university are overseeing the transition from a women’s college to a co-ed university and launching a new college for healthcare professionals. It was really to lift up, determine where investment was needed, begin to raise funds to do that.

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

The University of Pennsylvania’s Eidos LGBTQ+ Health initiative invites its schools, colleges and even third-party telehealth companies to address the current cultural gaps in healthcare that preclude its professionals from adequately caring for a growing demographic of the U.S. population. For every $100 awarded by U.S.