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New Impact Academy cohort represents 25 states, reaches 15,000 teacher-candidates annually

Deans for Impact

Increasing access and affordability of pathways into teaching–especially for future teachers of color. Building and sustaining a culture of equity and inclusion, and dismantling systems that oppress and marginalize. These are some of the biggest priorities for the fellows that make up our eighth cohort of Impact Academy.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Dr. Erik M.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. The six-year rate also rose, to 63 percent. But those higher figures still won’t bowl you over. ” Ugh.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Read about them here. Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Dreamline Pathways A.T.

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

Inside Higher Ed

A recent Newsweek headline sums up the widespread view: “ When We Fail to Teach Our Kids the Basics About Civics, We Risk Losing Our Democracy.” Worse yet, our democracy has not yet lived up to its promises of full participation and equal opportunity for large swaths of U.S. What does civics education entail?

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Yet I think it’s fair to say that however inspiring such a vision might be, the overwhelming majority of institutions have adopted a different approach. Yet I think it’s fair to say that however inspiring such a vision might be, the overwhelming majority of institutions have adopted a different approach.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

The Office for Diversity & Inclusion at A.T. Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. The program is expected to launch in spring 2023.