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Trinity, AU and Martha’s Table Partner to Offer Pathways Into Early Childhood Education Workforce

In an effort to create a more qualified workforce, the city of Washington D.C. increased its minimum education requirements for early childhood professionals in 2016. Under the regulations, by 2022, workers within childcare facilities must obtain at least a Child Development Associate (CDA) certification. To progress within the field, an associate’s or bachelor’s degree is also required. To encourage more individuals to pursue a career in early childhood education and meet D.C.’s educational requirements, Trinity, American University’s (AU) School of Education and non-profit Martha’s Table collaborated to launch Elevate Early Education.

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Preserving the Past and Building the Future: Meet Historian Rhonda Gonzales

Dr. Rhonda Gonzales has one eye on the past and the other on the future. As a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA), Gonzales is passionate about sharing the diverse histories and cultures of societies in pre-colonial Africa for future generations. Meanwhile, as an administrator, she is also passionate about how we envision the future for first-generation students.

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Hitting the Ground Running: A Q&A With Dr. S. David Wu, President of Baruch College

The COVID-19 pandemic hit just as Dr. S. David Wu, president of Baruch College, was celebrating his first year at the helm of the New York City-based institution. He had to move quickly to implement measures to protect his administrators, faculty and students. In a Q&A with Diverse, Wu talks about the experience of leading a school in a major COVID-19 hotspot, being the first Asian American president to lead an institution in The City University of New York (CUNY) system and what leadership lessons he took with him to Baruch from George Mason University, where he served as provost from 2014-2020.

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Higher Ed’s Most Common Rationale for Diversity Favors White Students More than Black

Ask a university administrator why they value diversity and they’ll likely give you one of two rationales. One is instrumental: “diversity provides viewpoints that are educationally fruitful for everyone.” The other is moral: “diversity is just and intrinsic to undoing years of systemic racism.” But is one rationale better than the other? And which one do students prefer? These were the driving questions behind a recent study conducted by Princeton researchers.

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Partnership Aims to Address Teaching Shortages Within South Carolina

In an effort to address the dearth of teachers in the rural schools districts across South Carolina, the University of South Carolina (UofSC) College of Education held discussions over the last few years with the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), a non-profit, around ways to address the crisis.

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Report Offers Solutions to Increase Racial Equity in Math Pathways

A new report from Just Equations, a non-profit organization that seeks to re-envision mathematics to ensure greater educational equity, offers a playbook for redesigning college math pathways which have been a distinct source of inequity.

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Report: Provosts Support More Data Collection About Students’ Basic Needs

A new report from Ithaka S+R has found that while community college provosts want to collect more data about students’ basic needs, factors such as limited resources and infrastructure restrict their ability to do so.

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Report Finds Workload Inequities Based on Faculty Members’ Race and Gender

New research on faculty member workloads at colleges and universities across the country, indicate glaring inequities based on gender and race.

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Huston-Tillotson University Partners With Apple to Increase Black Male Teachers

With the goal of diversifying the K-12 teaching pipeline, Huston-Tillotson University (HT) has collaborated with Apple to launch a new program. In the United States, only 2% of teachers are Black men.

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Meet the 2021 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Female Finalists

The Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar award is a part of Diverse’s quarter-century legacy of recognizing outstanding minority young men and women who have distinguished themselves in their academic and athletic pursuits. Meet this year’s female finalists.

Chanel Thomas – University of Mississippi

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Webinar Tackles Anti-Asian Hate

Several hundred educators recently participated in “Community Connection: Recent Incidents of Racially-Motivated Bias, Violence and Hate Against Asian Americans,” produced by ACUHO-I (Association of College and University Housing Officers—International) and NADOHE (National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education).

Report: Teacher Salaries Increase While the Wage Gaps Dip

The national average salary for teachers has increased slightly over the past decade thanks to hard-fought education movements. The pay gap between teachers and other college-educated professionals also dropped after hitting a record high in 2018, according to an annual report released by the National Education Association. Then the pandemic hit, potentially reversing any progress made so far.

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