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The Success of the McNair Scholars Program

If colleges and universities really want to diversify the professoriate, one immediate step they can take is to support and invest in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

February 13, 2020

Practicing Our Ideals: How the Interfaith Campus Can Restore Civil Discourse

Institutions of higher education share a commitment to public purpose and the common good. The education of our students is for their prosperity, but also for a just and prosperous society. The college or university campus offers a unique opportunity for maturity and formation, freedom and prescription, change and tradition, diversity and commonality.

February 11, 2020

Remorse and the College Admission Scandal’s Stiffest Penalty to Date

Douglas Hodge, is the former CEO of Pimco, a company you might know about if you pay attention to your workplace retirement funds. PIMCO is one of the cornerstone investments on the bond side, in other words, the safety play. You make your risky bets on the equity mutual funds. Bonds are like the sure thing. So of course you’d figure to see a guy like Hodge caught in the college admissions scandal.

February 11, 2020

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How My Tenure as Vice President at an HBCU Made Me a Better Scholar

My doctoral training gave me many things, including the “statistical chops” to analyze cross-sectional, nationally-representative, and complex-sampled survey data from HBCUs with relative ease. But I lacked the practical experience at an HBCU that could enrich my understanding, deepen my perspectives, and connect my interpretations back to the context from which they came.

February 10, 2020

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Social-Emotional Learning for Black Students is Ineffective When it is Culture-Blind

Educational professionals ill-prepared to work in culturally relevant ways with students of color in their capacity as mental health professionals (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists), and teachers, administrators, and policy makers can contribute to and even exacerbate SEL issues for students of color.

February 6, 2020

2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade

Over the years, organizations have sought to address, bias, discrimination and racism in the workplace by implementing a variety of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives with goals to address and fix these issues in order to make their organization’s more inclusive.

February 6, 2020

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How to Successfully Implement Guided Pathways Programs on Campus

If we know nothing else about today’s community college students from current research–particularly those who are first-generation and are from a low socioeconomic background–we know it is likely that during their educational journey “life” will happen to them.

February 5, 2020

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When They Say: “Implicit Bias Trainings Don’t Work”

Let me be clear: Of course, a well-designed and well-implemented implicit bias training works—just not for everyone and not as a stand-alone strategy.

February 4, 2020

Left Out? Can the Completion Movement Reach Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Discouraged by data showing that nearly 42 percent of college students failed to earn degrees within six years, policymakers, institutional leaders, and practitioners are turning their attention to closing completion gaps that impact nearly every facet of higher education.

February 3, 2020

Thankful to the Brotherhood

As a Ph.D. candidate expecting to graduate this semester, I have found myself constantly reflecting on the impact joining Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. had on me. My entry point to higher education is tied to my experiences as an undergraduate student leader. My involvement on campus began after I joined my fraternity.

January 31, 2020

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Three Relationships Institutions Shouldn’t Underestimate in Closing Opportunity Gaps

It’s tempting to focus on faculty- and teacher-student relationships at the core of schools. And for good reason. Educators remain the leading in-school driver of student success. But it turns out that there are other relationships beyond that core that can offer real value to students and can bolster outcomes for institutions. The reality is that teachers shouldn’t go it alone.

January 31, 2020

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Maybe UC Needs an Adjunct President?

The University of California is looking for a new president. UC is hosting town halls around the state looking for input. As a public service, here is my input: I hope the search committee realizes that someone with an adjunct’s qualities would be worthy of being on any list to lead the world’s finest public institution of higher learning.

January 28, 2020

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Academia in 20/20 Vision

How we hold ourselves in academia contributes to our own character development as scholar-practitioners and the legacy we wish to leave. As we progress in our careers we will work with students in many capacities and hopefully cultivate their aspirations and goals so that they too develop in character.

January 27, 2020

Racial Discrimination Continues to Deny Access to Gifted Education for Black Students: A Few Reality Checks

A new report indicates that Black students do not have access to advanced courses. For some readers, this is new news, as in unfamiliar. For others, like myself, my contemporaries, this is very old and frustrating news—the kind that makes me grind my teeth to the point of getting a migraine.

January 26, 2020

Does America Really Want More Black Teachers? If So, Supporting HBCUs is the Answer.

A national call to action for more Black teachers is especially necessary when considering research shows Black teachers are less likely to suspend or expel students of a shared race. Thus, increasing the number of Black teachers can aid in eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline, a system 2019 national Teacher of the Year (TOY), Rodney Robinson, knows too well.

January 21, 2020

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Beware the Racist Who Claims to Be “Rational”

Among the most dangerous arguments for racial profiling are the most rational. They are persuasive because they are by definition based on logic and statistics. The premise is that a stereotype is true, or more probably true than false, or at least more true of the group subjected to it than of other populations.

January 21, 2020

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Clark Atlanta Chose Me

“I didn’t choose Clark, Clark chose me”. This is how Tennessee native Hali Smith describes her choice to attend Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black university (HBCU) in Georgia. This is her story.

January 17, 2020

How Can We Close the STEM Gender Gap Before Another Century Passes?

As we head into a new decade, we are tasked with preparing engineers and computer scientists to lead a transforming workforce. Ultimately, employers will search for workers who thrive on multi-disciplinary teams that prioritize collaboration and disruption. The question then becomes: How do we fill the need for a larger, higher-skilled engineering and technology workforce? We must widen the pipeline to include people from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields.

January 16, 2020