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University of San Diego Recruiting Students for Restorative Justice Master's Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program – one of four such programs in the nation and the first in California – will span 17 months, with seven online classes, two one-week classes on campus, and one travel seminar. The first cohort will start next fall.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her research focuses on the experiences of African American men on the teacher education pathway, such as their day-to-day lives while training, their feelings and perspectives, and their motivations in wanting to teach. Dr. Samantha L. in biology from Mount Allison University.

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Developing Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.

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Advancing Women in Economics is a Moral Imperative: Why Aren’t We Talking About it?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is a system that was created by the economic ideas and research from a field the has been and remains dominated by white men. Unlike the gender disparities in STEM fields, women’s underrepresentation in the field of economics has received limited research scrutiny from social scientists. one that has earned the U.S.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. As RPI’s 18th president, Jackson was the first African American woman to lead a top-ranked research university.

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Report Highlights Shortages of Credentials Aligned with Middle-Skills Occupations

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“Institutions should understand what the size or magnitude of that projected shortage in their local economy is, take stock of what their current credential production is and understand the constraints they are experiencing,” said Dr. Zack Mabel, research professor and director of research at CEW, co-author of the report.