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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Tiera Tanksley

ACPA

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program. She earned her Ph.D.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Women in Engineering and Computer Science Program (WIECS) Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and Computer Science WIECS fosters a supportive learning environment that encourages women students to earn degrees and ultimately pursue careers in engineering and computer science.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. This holds true for selective institutions.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

We’ve seen students and families using this information, but we’ve also heard from institutions starting to understand that the data is there and showing an interest in the program-level data in terms of how they improve their programs and all of their offerings writ large.

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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

GlobalHigherEd

Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly reinterpreting fragile and easily forgotten knowledge. Examples of ICTs, “big data” and other emerging technologies leading to research breakthroughs in the natural and health sciences are well known.

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Watch Your Language

Inside Higher Ed

Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. I’m of the view that we as a society need many more “middlebrow” works, like McWhorter’s, that make sophisticated scholarship accessible to a broader audience in an entertaining yet thoughtful way.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said. This includes adaptations of various popular music.