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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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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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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Advocates have argued that the legislation would dramatically alter the careers and the lives of the thousands and thousands of undocumented immigrant students who are working toward, or have, an impressive, expensive postsecondary education. Priscila Fuentes is one of those students. That doesn’t always happen,” she says.

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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%.

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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” As access institutions, community colleges have the opportunity to address the postsecondary educational needs of students and their families.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Higher education is about deep learning,” Thompson says.

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