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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.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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Guiding Students to Overcome Barriers To Student Success In Higher Education With Career Counseling

Creatrix Campus

Personal Development In addition to addressing professional development, career counseling provides tools for handling time, stress, and other personal difficulties. Create a fund to assist students who have unforeseen financial difficulties in an emergency situation. This is often the much talked about topic.

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joyce Payne is founder of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the national advocacy organization designed to support students who attend the 47 publicly supported HBCUs. Those areas were developed through research and interviews with research scholars, thought leaders, and practitioners. Dr. Harry L.

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DEIJ Annual Report for 2022-2023

Goucher DEI

This past year, CAST hosted numerous workshops including: a Language, Power, and Positionality roundtable for students and faculty, multiple faculty sessions on anti-racist writing assessment and pedagogy, and a session on the intersection of antisemitism and racism in the college classroom.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. They are hired on a per-class, per-semester basis. They do not control the conditions of their work. They may be asked to take on a new course with a week or less warning.

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The Next Frontiers in the Battle Over CRT and DEI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Spreading misinformation The specter of the 2024 presidential election and the accompanying Republican primary contest will add fuel to the fire, according to Dr. Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California (USC) and creator of the National DEI Defense Fund.

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