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Renowned UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Killed in Oakland Hit-and-Run

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His research took him across the globe, from copper mines in Zambia to machine shops in Chicago and Hungary, and industrial facilities in post-Soviet Russia. He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. For the next three months, our group reviewed each section of the course master syllabus, based on our lived experiences as students and faculty and informed by the initial readings.

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educators from a variety of community colleges shared how student success and sense of belonging is vital to meeting their local workforce needs, and how their unique geographic locations, demographic growth, and regional needs have influenced how they connect with big industry and small to mid-sized businesses.

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Data scientists: How HBCUs and businesses can inspire the next generation

University Business

Partnering with HBCUs In 2023, FICO created an analytic challenge relevant to aspiring Black data scientists that would give them a taste of the real-world problems we work to solve in the financial services industry. Working with historically black colleges and universities.,

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How HBCUs and businesses can inspire the next generation of data scientists

University Business

Partnering with HBCUs In 2023, FICO created an analytic challenge relevant to aspiring Black data scientists that would give them a taste of the real-world problems we work to solve in the financial services industry. In Year 2, we expanded the program to include two new HBCUs and a two-year technical college.

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Higher ed must maintain research integrity. Here is how

University Business

Toxic incentive structures surrounding publishing scholarly work may be eroding faculty and research integrity at large. Some of her tips include: Implement error prevention techniques from other disciplines : “[Study] industries in which humans making mistakes kills someone or costs a lot of money.”