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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Recognizing diverse participation and communication styles builds inclusivity and reduces the pressure to perform in a single, narrow way (Gay, 2018; Dweck, 2006).

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. This moment inspired Joshua Jackson and Dayshawn Louden, then student leaders at Compton College, to begin campaigning and advocating for student housing and increased basic needs on campus.

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Louis, Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste was certain shed become a doctor, but her college years told a different story. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. As a teenager growing up in St.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Recognizing diverse participation and communication styles builds inclusivity and reduces the pressure to perform in a single, narrow way (Gay, 2018; Dweck, 2006).

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Further, · “individuals who know the world only from their own cultural perspectives are denied important parts of the human experience and are culturally and ethnically encapsulated” (p.1). That was 2006; now, look at the state of affairs in 2024. 1. This is a major misguided perception of those who oppose EDI. Dr. Donna Y.

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NIH Grant to Study Infertility, Health Among Women of Mexican Heritage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We need to know more about infertility and related health risks in this group,” said Dr. Leslie Farland, an associate professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and member of the U of A Cancer Center. “Hispanics are the largest minority group in the United States, and 60% of Hispanics have Mexican heritage.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

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The assistance that ChatGPT generated for my TCs was the time-saving jumpstart most needed to invest more energy into elements of their capstone project that actually needed their creative human touch. Dr. Lauren E. Burrow is a professor of education studies at Stephen F. Austin State University, a member of the University of Texas system.