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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). These opportunities are interdisciplinary in nature and emphasize Indigenous languages, cultures, and learning.

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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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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Sharla Berry

ACPA

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Sharla Berry , Assistant Professor in the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (CEEE) at California State University, Long Beach. Based on your research, what recommendations do you have for better supporting students as they navigate online college environments and experiences?

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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.

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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It is therefore easier to create a system for scholarships or waivers for folks who are marginalized or do not have institutional funding. Let’s not put exclusionary professional development practices back to what they were before March 2020. ” More than 300 participants from five continents joined us. Acknowledgment.

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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. We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President, Institutional Strategy & Effectiveness, Mississippi State University University Research Supporting undergraduate research and challenging assumptions R.