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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Scholarships targeting specific demographics, such as first-generation students or those from low-income backgrounds, can help bridge the gap.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We take a case management approach in that we look at individual students—their high school transcripts, if they had ESL (English as a Second Language) in school, if they self-designate as English language learners, and writing samples that they do to see if they need some language support,” Moreno says. are Hispanic.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Scholarships targeting specific demographics, such as first-generation students or those from low-income backgrounds, can help bridge the gap.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs. million soldiers segregated by race and test scores.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Hawkins Jr.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. Image: Carnegie Mellon University–Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, is the only American campus on the entire continent.