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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There was free pizza from an award-winning shop , music, and even entertainment for kids. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased. Higher education post-incarceration also expands individuals social networks and promotes their health and well-being.

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Assisting Students in Making Career Decisions in the Context of Socioeconomic Incentives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The role of higher education institutions in shaping students' career path choices is pivotal. The allure of high financial rewards associated with certain professions, such as athletes, entertainers, and media personalities, can be significant motivating factors for students.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. The IU Higher Education and Student Affairs Program allowed Ph.D. Many of them now work in higher education.

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NASPA Centers the Stories of Diverse Student Affairs Professionals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care.

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Professor Examines Asian American Representation Across Media, Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I think perhaps … it’s taken a while for the second and the third generation to come of age and to join the entertainment industries in ways in which they can make a difference,” Oh said. And stereotypical views that Asian Americans are often discouraged by their families from pursuing entertainment careers are dubious, said Oh. “I

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10th Minority Male Initiative Set to Shape the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

show business and entertainment. The conference will connect students with professionals in five key career clusters: 1.) science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM; 2.) mainframe computing communications media; 3.) health science; 4.) business and social science; and 5.)