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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements. The movement and transition between these institutional types can be jarring to Indigenous students.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks. Moreover, assessment should be incorporated as an integral component of the student learning experience.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks. Moreover, assessment should be incorporated as an integral component of the student learning experience.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite the broad availability of AP courses, lower-income communities are still less likely to offer them than those in more affluent areas and Black students are consistently underrepresented even where availability is not an issue. This effectively prevented poor and working-class students from being able to attend college.

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Leaders weigh in on why the time to improve faculty affairs is now

University Business

Joanna Brooks, Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success at San Diego State University, believes higher education leaders must reexamine their institutional structures to ensure the focus of faculty affairs goes beyond equipping staff with the tools to “survive the system.”

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Veteran Healers

Insight Into Diversity

The VA now conducts programs for more than 120,000 health care students and trainees annually in affiliation with over 1,800 educational institutions, including 97 percent of the country’s medical schools. Nearly 70 percent of all physicians have trained with the VA in at least one of its 170 medical centers.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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. and over 90 percent of VCOM students are from one of these areas.