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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist. in educational leadership.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I The presentations spark interest and possibly ignite a passion for learning more, which is how he found his career in academia. I had to get used to that.

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Cultural Competency & Anti-Bias Programs Address Health Disparities

Insight Into Diversity

To address the health inequities impacting underrepresented populations, higher education educators, industry professionals, and students are informed with teaching and programming focused on anti-bias and cultural competency. This article was published in our November/December 2023 issue.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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Binghamton University reestablished the Affirmative Action Office and adopted the Bias Incident Response Team model comprised of campus partners representing a diversity of voices that employ education, counseling, and cultural competency training to help resolve incident reports. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

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(Podcast) #28- Importance of collaborative effort in supporting international students with Wendy, Cassie and Danielle

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I’m specifically supporting master’s students in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. And then my office also, and also one of my role is leading a transition class called EDUC classes for the first year international students who has not been in the United States before. So I’m Danielle Lewis.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

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He couldn’t get credit for his prior education in Syria. While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities.

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Harvard Pushes Back Against Trump Demands, Defending Academic Freedom and $9 Billion in Research Funding

Insight Into Diversity

Harvard is one of over 60 universities targeted in recent weeks by the Department of Education, which has threatened enforcement actions and frozen funding at several institutions. Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. It is our responsibility as a community to address our shortcomings and embody our values.