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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Anna Lees While many TCUs are smaller institutions, TCUs often offer a culturally relevant learning environment that is absent in larger predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Most universities and colleges continue to occupy large land bases and are maintained by taxing those stolen lands.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs. African Americans deserve better. Dr. Ivory A.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. For employees, including Zucker School of Medicine faculty, business employee resource groups foster a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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

EAB

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment. We can no longer go back to pre-pandemic practices. They simply won’t work.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Evolving with a holistic approach is more important now than it’s ever been.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Most notably, it must be clear that each institution has an environment in which Latino students can thrive. Some are focusing on faculty development, digital technology, basic needs, other areas beyond what we’ve asked in the past. They must present evidence of effectiveness in institutional practices serving Latino students.

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