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Librarians target incoming students, collaborative measures

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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Mentoring Matters: Supporting the Success and Sustainability of Diversity Officers

Insight Into Diversity

Higher education institutions across the country face heightened scrutiny with respect to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts. At least 30 states have introduced legislation to end or significantly limit campus diversity initiatives, despite research proving that learning in a diverse environment benefits all students.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Dr. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D.

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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). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement.

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From the INSIGHT Editorial Board: Reflections on 50 Years

Insight Into Diversity

“Never has INSIGHT Into Diversity been more needed in higher education. INSIGHT reminds us of this inexorable fact while providing the tools, resources, and encouragement needed to meet the moment we all find ourselves in.” I love seeing my colleagues across the country doing what they do — shining so brightly!

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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). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. Just acknowledge that there is emotion that comes with what has happened and [offer] some resources.” Michael Brown, a Black teenager, had been fatally shot by a white police officer, and the city was on fire. It never did.