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Diversity, Equity and Student Success Conference Plots Agenda for the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions.

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Biden Calls for Greater Support of HBCUs, HSIs, and MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Biden has made access to affordable education a cornerstone of his presidential tenure, and he reinforced that position by calling for an increase in Pell Grants and a further increase in “our record investments in HBCUs [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] and Hispanic and Minority Serving Institutions [HSIs and MSIs].”

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

Deans for Impact

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. Laura Spenceley Join us in welcoming our eighth cohort of Impact Academy fellows! McIntyre, Jr.

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Finding the Need and Endeavoring to Meet it: Sinclair Community College’s Equity Rubric

WCET Frontiers

Today we welcome several staff from the eLearning Department at Sinclair Community College, who are here to share about a new tool they use for designing and evaluating digital courses. Process and Implementation Institutional leadership embraced the efforts to increase digital equity and inclusion.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My colleagues and I picked up the mantel about five to six years ago.” A Penn State representative said the administration did respond to the reports when they were first published, and the reports became part of their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging inventory from last spring. Dr. Marcus A. Dr. Marcus A.

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How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success

EAB

How to Build a Sustainable Model for Student Equity and Increase Student Success. With this in mind, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte decided to evaluate its institutional policies through an equity lens using EAB’s 360-Degree Student Equity Audit.

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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The professor first pursued collegiate study and research pertaining to poor people of color and queer and trans people — persons who were familiar to Ramos in appearance and life experience. “It It felt good to see other people who looked and felt like me,” recalls Ramos. Ramos’ work is a great example.”

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