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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Duke University; and postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Career mentors: Dr. Jennifer West, University of Virginia; Dr. Warren Grayson and Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff, The Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc., Moore currently has six Ph.D.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While we know that they bring value to the classroom, they’re very much absent in the classroom as educators, as teachers,” said Strachan, acting chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Leadership at Alabama A&M University. Strachan said she wants to figure out why fewer than 2% of all teachers in the U.S.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. These jobs may be in hospitals as well as in local health departments or nonprofit organizations.

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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

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years from 2019 to 2021. Home computers and internet service were nonexistent for many students in the department. Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

link] Comics and graphic novels can disrupt traditional texts by challenging the worship of the written word ( Torres, 2019 ), a feature of white supremacy that perpetuates textual hierarchies within educational spaces. link] A Legacy Community is a living and learning community supported by broader institutional departments (e.g.,

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If the Global Skills Opportunity pilot ends, Canadians with disabilities will miss out

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In the same vein, the Canadian government launched in 2019 the Global Skills Opportunity mobility pilot program to help students study or work abroad. I’m a person with reduced mobility, and in 2000 I won a generous scholarship without which I wouldn’t have been able to study for a semester at the Université de Poitiers in France.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. There are significant limitations in this kind of diagnostic system, as pointed out by the autistic community (Davis & Museus, 2019). 2019; Cassidy et al., How did we get here?

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