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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2019; Monarrez & Washington, 2020). Black males are further disadvantaged and marginalized due to being labeled and stereotyped as intellectually inferior to their racial and gender counterparts. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. Fletcher Jr.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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HBCUs are rich in diversity and often consist of more disadvantaged and underrepresented populations (NCES, 2020). HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). Additionally, all of the course materials are available on the school Learning Management System (LMS) (Binnewies, 2019; Wang, 2019).

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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom

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Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Even more damagingly, it created demoralizing stereotypical associations of higher intelligence limited to certain ethnic groups (Armstrong, 2019). Hendler, T.,

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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom

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Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Even more damagingly, it created demoralizing stereotypical associations of higher intelligence limited to certain ethnic groups (Armstrong, 2019). Hendler, T.,

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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It is a human condition, as common as hoping for a bright sunny day in February. In order to assess the new 2021 data in comparison with pre-pandemic trends, I calculated the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2012 and 2019 for each of the formats students are choosing. million students in 2019. percent per year).

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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. The spaces I work in are more policy, behavioral economics, anything that deals with human behavior.

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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

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While the November blog indicated that Snapshot Data undercounted total enrollment by nearly 6 million students in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year), I didn’t go too far into where these missing students were hidden. But, this hypothesis doesn’t take into account what I call the “try it you’ll like it” factor in human behavior.