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Full-Text Articles in Education
Creating Change: Arts, Activism, And The Academy, Miguel Martinez-Saenz , Provost, Academic Affairs
Creating Change: Arts, Activism, And The Academy, Miguel Martinez-Saenz , Provost, Academic Affairs
Administrators/Executives/Staff Scholarship
Article describes a program in connection with Wittenberg University's first-year experience program, in which faculty, staff, and community leaders invited Bryonn Bain--spoken-word poet, prison activist, and educator--to deliver a series of performance-based programs that cut across campus and community. In fall 2008, Bain demonstrated how bridging the divide between the arts, activism, and the academy can shift consciousness and catalyze social change.
Liberal Education, Effective Practice, And Diversity, Armando Bengochea, George Kuh, Steve Stemler
Liberal Education, Effective Practice, And Diversity, Armando Bengochea, George Kuh, Steve Stemler
Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise
This session will be based on three presentations that focus on the relationship between liberal education, effective practice and diversity from different perspectives. George Kuh will present data indicating that the educational benefits of "high impact" learning experiences (such as experiential education and undergraduate research), which are significant for all students, are often greater for students from underserved and minority backgrounds than for their majority counterparts. Armando Bengochea will discuss the ways in which an emphasis on effective practice can enhance the educational experiences of students of color within a liberal arts curriculum. Steve Stemler will report on research showing …
Why Diversity Still Needs A Champion, Nancy Cantor
Why Diversity Still Needs A Champion, Nancy Cantor
Chancellor's Collection
Although The New York Times has already observed that President Barack Obama is an "omnipresent icebreaker" in the national conversation about race, now is a good time to recall the President's warning that we will not "get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy" and that race is something in American history and life "that we've never really worked through." Diversity—and not only in race (though importantly race)—is an agenda that still needs champions, on campus as well as in Washington, D.C.
Hiv, Diversity And Cultural Competence, Masha Eisenberg, Renee Moreton, Tadgh Mcmahon, Nandini Ray
Hiv, Diversity And Cultural Competence, Masha Eisenberg, Renee Moreton, Tadgh Mcmahon, Nandini Ray
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Cross-cultural issues are a reality and a challenge for public sector agencies seeking to meet their responsibilities in an increasingly diverse Australia. ‘Cross-cultural training’ of various kinds has been part of the ‘tool box’ to address these challenges. Here we report briefly on the more comprehensive framework of ‘cultural competence’
A Call To Community: Some Thoughts For Student Affairs About Identity And Diversity, Jason A. Laker
A Call To Community: Some Thoughts For Student Affairs About Identity And Diversity, Jason A. Laker
Faculty Publications
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