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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Another initiative, the Diversity and Inclusion Mentoring Network program, provides an opportunity for medical students and faculty members to develop a mentoring relationship in an informal environment. . The MCW Kern Institute held the Summit on Advancing Equity in the Learning Environment.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. How did we get here? When Autism Research.

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Post-Pandemic Resurgence Bolsters HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early pandemic years “Absolutely, we saw an increase in interest and applications,” said Angela Nixon Boyd, assistant vice president for enrollment management and dean of admission at Hampton University in Virginia. There are also increased scholarship opportunities.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. How did we get here? When Autism Research.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.

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Georgetown University’s Trek to Turn Refugees into Students

WCET Frontiers

Today WCET Frontiers welcomes Kelly Otter, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University, to discuss the University’s program to assist refugees in the Middle East. In July 2019, I visited the JRS Amman Jordan site with a TESOL expert colleague to study the English language program delivery that was being offered.