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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the campus level, Gomez is faculty advisor for the student organization Semillas de Centro America, which seeks to sustain a supportive community for Central American students and community members. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the campus level, Gomez is faculty advisor for the student organization Semillas de Centro America, which seeks to sustain a supportive community for Central American students and community members. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro.

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Bringing Greater Impact

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Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences promotes career readiness skills, so every discipline is developing the students’ verbal and written skills. there were protests on campus.

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HBCU Students: Redefining Civic Engagement and Demanding to Be Heard

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A call to action: Catalyzing change through education Dr. Amanda Wilkerson The upcoming election season presents a pivotal opportunity for post-secondary institutions as a whole to redefine their approach to civic engagement education.

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

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“During that time, I witnessed the [Women’s Center’s] first Kentucky Women’s Book Festival and had the chance to drive the late feminist scholar, bell hooks, back to her hotel after her presentation at the festival,” she says. I wanted to make a multiracial and feminist solidarity model visible, embodied by the presenters and vendors.”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Waller Taylor Cupp “We’re engaged, especially with the student organizations,” Waller says. There is an umbrella organization for the minority organizations at Virginia Tech, CAMEO (Council for the Advancement of Minority Engineering Organizations), which provides funding and scholarships and organizes the CAMEO CareerFest each spring.

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Examples of Excelencia

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CAMP staff are officially reaching out to WSU programs with internships to make sure students in CAMP get the most of their college experience. In creating the Career Pathways program, TIF did research on both the present and anticipated future needs of local institutions, businesses and organizations. “We are Hispanic. “We