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HBCUs: Beacons of Opportunity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The significance of TMCF’s work is it helps students of the 47 public Historically Black Colleges and Universities and six Historically Black Community Colleges it serves by preparing students for success through curated programming and scholarships.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

They also participate in workshops and seminars on emotional intelligence, professional development, communication skills, and scientific writing. It provides a comprehensive system of support, a community of peers, STEM research experiences, relevant coursework, mentorship, professional development, and employment at Columbia.

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The Transformative Potential of Museum-University Partnerships

Inside Higher Ed

He was a history Ph.D. Work jointly with museums to expand professional development opportunities. But certainly academics should do all we can to share our knowledge and expertise, and one way to do that is to partner with museums to offer professional development for teachers.

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CFI 24-25 Directorate Board Candidate Statements

ACPA

It is important for fat student affairs practitioners and fat students to receive the recognition of their work, advocacy, and scholarship. Continuing to center these voices and histories is critical to supporting all fat lives and bodies to thrive within higher education as it is now and can be in the future.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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The current state of learning in HESA graduate preparation programs: Curricular developments from the last decade.

ACPA

For example, the ACPA/NASPA Competencies document aims to “set out the scope and content of professional competencies required of student affairs educators in order for them to succeed within the current higher educational environment as well as projected future environments” (2015, p.

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Academic Libraries Leading the Way in Accessibility

Insight Into Diversity

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is home to the Purdue University Library Center for Digital Scholarship, whose mission is to “remove barriers to global participation in a knowledge commons and build a more diverse, equitable, and sustainable system of scholarly communication.”