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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Telling a Filipino Story At Unity Weekend for Harvard Alumni of Color
If higher ed stamps a student forever, it’s an institution’s alumni association that makes sure you never forget who birthed you. Or in subsequent years, where you placed your checkbook. Or your bitcoin wallet.
September 21, 2021
Opinion
Roueche Center Forum: Center for Community College Student Engagement Celebrates 20 Years
September 16, 2021
Opinion
North Star Dimensions: The Douglass/Tubman Approach to Social Justice and Inclusion in Higher Education
September 16, 2021
Opinion
A Faculty Retreat Could Be What Scholars Need In These Challenging Times
This is a time for academics to begin a term with fresh possibilities in our work as teachers, researchers, and citizens. I experienced the breadth and depth of new beginnings at my school’s faculty retreat as I transitioned from one university to another
September 15, 2021
Opinion
Taking Action on Campus Sexual Assaults by Engaging Men
As a society we’ve accepted the awful reality that 1 in 4 young women will be sexually assaulted during their time on campus.
September 10, 2021
Opinion
Inspiring Tech Bridges
I have listed three strategies that tech bridge builders can use in their quest to find ways to connect adult learners to programs at higher education institutions that can equip them for accelerating opportunities in the tech sector.
September 9, 2021
Opinion
Code-Switching to Code Stitching: Theorizing an Alternative Framework
The term code-switching has become a part of our sociocultural lexicon, especially among Black and Bi-Racial Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities. The definition of code-switching is two-fold.
September 8, 2021
Opinion
Labor Day Diversity: When the Farm Worker and Civil Rights Movements Merges
Critical Race Theory? What’s that? Don’t be fooled by the mumbo jumbo of critics who would deny the truth in classrooms. CRT has been around for decades and is a legit thing—a way of looking at history through the legal lens of social justice.
September 7, 2021
Opinion
Diverse College Students Need Diverse Career Choices
Knowing that many college students will be making changes to their majors, we should help them understand that early childhood education requires professionals with many unique talents.
September 3, 2021
Opinion
The Professoriate as a Community Project
In understanding the professoriate as a community project, we must plan and prioritize community. Planning means not relying on academic spaces to cultivate and maintain community, but rather, seeing ourselves as the conduits.
September 2, 2021
Opinion
DEI is More than an Acronym!
While the duties of the CDO vary from one institution to the next, I believe it is prudent for those considering accepting such a position to do their due diligence before signing a contract, no matter how attractive the salary may be.
September 1, 2021
Opinion
Inspiring Tech Discipline
Dreams need to be ignited for students to have the internal motivation to want to pursue careers in the emerging tech sector. This, however, is just one needed component on the road to the actualization of the dream.
August 31, 2021
Opinion
Who is Latinx and What Does It Mean?
Debates over who is Latinx and what that means always hit close to home in higher education. Among college students nationally, about 36% identify as Latinx or Hispanic; and 61% of these are the first to attend college in their families.
August 30, 2021
Opinion
What I’ve Learned in College
I’m proud to be the first woman in my Latinx family to complete a college degree and the first person to finish a master’s degree, and that left a seemingly easy goal for me to set: I want to complete a doctoral degree before hitting the big 5-0.
August 28, 2021
Opinion
The Lessons of Southern Idioms in Designing for the New HBCU Student
Not only did HBCUs produce many of the great leaders of the civil rights movement, but these institutions were also the epicenter of important civil rights activities. HBCUs have a history of leading the way and they must continue to lead by push or pull.
August 26, 2021
Opinion
Changing the Narrative Around Teaching and Learning
Equity efforts must extend into the classroom—and transform it.
August 24, 2021
Opinion
See You in September? Or Lose You to a Summer Virus?
When death is the worst case, remote learning is the only answer until we get a better handle on this.
August 23, 2021
Opinion
Inspiring Tech Dreams
There is a need for new “tech dreams” to inspire people to be motivated to take advantage of some of the structures of opportunity that are being constructed by higher education institutions, corporations, school systems, and other entities.
August 20, 2021
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