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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The four entities recognized this year span a diverse geographic area, but they share the mission of uplifting their communities while also creating a broader impact in terms of education and the workforce. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession. We are an affordable institution.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. 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. This is the mission of TCUs.”

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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Five Things You Should Know About Connecting Democracy and the Curriculum

Faculty Focus

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Students enrolled in statistics courses for education majors can learn to analyze data to support their applications for federal grant funding.

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Five Things You Should Know About Connecting Democracy and the Curriculum

Faculty Focus

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Students enrolled in statistics courses for education majors can learn to analyze data to support their applications for federal grant funding.

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We Need to Infuse Civic and Public Purpose Into a College Education

Inside Higher Ed

What does civics education entail? There are a lot of disagreements, but certain goals are widely shared: To teach students about the history and the workings of the political, judicial and civil institutions upon which democratic self-government rests. In my discipline, history, I can think of a number of socially purposeful projects.