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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

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He couldn’t get credit for his prior education in Syria. While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities.

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Cultural Competency & Anti-Bias Programs Address Health Disparities

Insight Into Diversity

To address the health inequities impacting underrepresented populations, higher education educators, industry professionals, and students are informed with teaching and programming focused on anti-bias and cultural competency. Students identify approaches that best identify and mitigate individual and system-level biases.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. I had to get used to that.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Binghamton University reestablished the Affirmative Action Office and adopted the Bias Incident Response Team model comprised of campus partners representing a diversity of voices that employ education, counseling, and cultural competency training to help resolve incident reports. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.