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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Rethinking Assessment, Equity and Academic Integrity
In an era where students have access to course material and study websites and where the answers to many exam questions are just a Google query away, our understanding of cheating and academic integrity is woefully behind the curve.
November 1, 2021
Opinion
Engaging Stakeholders On the DEI Journey
Early in my professionalization to EDI work, I would often speak up during event Q&As to ask the experts my most pressing and challenging question: how do we engage the folks who aren’t present today?
October 29, 2021
Opinion
Prerequisites for Effective Presidential Searches
It seems that increasingly more presidential searches, at institutions of all types and sizes, are bumping up against the guard rails of reality in the context of overzealous expectations.
October 29, 2021
Opinion
I Know the Power of Prison Education Programs
For years, I was known as inmate number 341916. I have spent over 15 years of my life either in prison, on parole/probation, or under community supervision after making an impulsive decision that spun me through the cycle of mass incarceration.
October 27, 2021
Opinion
Education and Democracy: Critique of Diversity, Equity, and Race for Liberatory Practices
We question the popularity of DEI as fetishism and faddism and the political courage for institutions to engage critically with historical and contemporary matters of racial equity.
October 26, 2021
Opinion
Why We Decided to Add We/Us/Ours to Our Pronouns
More recently, we added three other pronouns beyond gender identity (we/us/ours) to honor and identify other salient and collectivist social identities.
October 22, 2021
Opinion
Gen X and Millennial Community College Leaders Offer the Leadership of the Future
Many Gen X and Millennial leaders arrive in their roles via non-traditional pathways, are technologically astute and are more diverse than previous generations of community college presidents.
October 21, 2021
Opinion
Keep Families in Mind: An Equity-Focused approach to In-Person Learning.
There is an urgency amongst communities and schools across the nation to prioritize justice because they are essential to connecting the current realities.
October 20, 2021
Opinion
Is It Critical Race Theory to Know Filipino American History?
October is Filipino American History month. Not heritage, history. Not Critical Race Theory. Just the real history of America’s involvement with Filipino nationals and American Filipino citizens.
October 19, 2021
Opinion
Secretary of State Colin Powell and International Affairs and Education: Professional and Personal Reflections
The most remarkable memories of my interactions with the Secretary were his constant articulations to encompass diversity and equity within international affairs and education.
October 18, 2021
Opinion
How My Virtual Internship Prepared Me in Ways I Never Imagined
Virtual internships do not need to be daunting or burdensome. They can be just as meaningful and valuable as in-person internship.
October 15, 2021
Opinion
Why are HBCUs the Only Institutions Included In the Discourse about Tuition-Free Community College?
It is important to keep in mind that HBCUs are not a monolith, much like spectrum of diverse institutions inclusive of Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), with different missions and institutional selectivity.
October 13, 2021
Opinion
Smoke and Mirrors: Challenging the Elimination of Gifted and Talented Education Under the Guise of Universal Access for All Children
When educators fail to comprehend the perspectives, experiences, and realities of Black and Brown children, they, in effect render them invisible — ignoring and devaluing their gifts and talents, and untapped potential.
October 12, 2021
Opinion
When the ‘Gates’ are Literally and Figuratively Closed to Gifted and Talented Education for Black Students
Since its inception, the field of gifted and talented education (GATE) has been steeped in controversy and inequities due to the initial and ongoing underrepresentation of Black students, followed by Hispanic students.
October 11, 2021
Opinion
Roueche Center Forum: Humanity, Not AI, is Essential for Student Retention
October 10, 2021
Opinion
Fear of the Gaze: How Perceived Judgement Impacts Student Career Choices
When one relinquishes the power of their own definition to others then they are subject to the whims of external marginalization and limitations that they have made agreement with by virtue of the abdication of their own power to define themselves.
October 7, 2021
Opinion
Rich AAPI Harvard Alumni Force Harvard’s Hand on Ethnic Studies, Diversity
October 5, 2021
Opinion
What it Takes to Bridge the Access and Success Gap for Lower-Income Students
While doubling the Pell grant represents a critical step, colleges and universities must also do their part to ensure the thousands of talented students from lower-income backgrounds have a clear path to apply, enroll, and persist toward graduation.
October 4, 2021
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