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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite the broad availability of AP courses, lower-income communities are still less likely to offer them than those in more affluent areas and Black students are consistently underrepresented even where availability is not an issue. This effectively prevented poor and working-class students from being able to attend college.

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Leaders weigh in on why the time to improve faculty affairs is now

University Business

However vital faculty may be to an institution, supporting our faculty’s growth and health seems to be overlooked at many institutions as higher education leaders slowly pick off the cobwebs of the pandemic’s impact. which will discuss revamping faculty affairs in a post-pandemic world.

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Veteran Healers

Insight Into Diversity

The VA now conducts programs for more than 120,000 health care students and trainees annually in affiliation with over 1,800 educational institutions, including 97 percent of the country’s medical schools. Lieber was granted the highest award in research by the VA, the 2023 Paul B.

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Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

EAB

Blogs Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the top down August 9, 2023 Joanna Krueger Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. The program is expected to launch in spring 2023.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. First, however, let’s ask why those inequities realities persist.