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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6 million students enrolled in colleges and universities.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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We have learned that the humanization of this space is novel for PSTs. Empowering PSTs by facilitating our course using an SEL framework has been a positive force in the teacher education program. She holds a PhD in curriculum and pedagogy and has extensive experience teaching in postsecondary and K–12 settings.

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Study Finds that Promise Program Still Leaves Racial Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The research, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , focused on participants in the first such program, the Kalamazoo Promise. According to Dr. Natasha Warikoo, the Lenore Stern professor in the humanities and social sciences at Tufts University, the findings are important, but not surprising. “It

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In school counseling and mental health counseling, counselor educators get extensive preparation in socio-emotional learning (SEL). This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation. Dr. Donna Y.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

We have learned that the humanization of this space is novel for PSTs. Empowering PSTs by facilitating our course using an SEL framework has been a positive force in the teacher education program. She holds a PhD in curriculum and pedagogy and has extensive experience teaching in postsecondary and K–12 settings.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.