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'''Top policies for departments'''
  
Team members: Please add your research results below in the following way.
 
  
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1. Offer a course on [[Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Economics]] or on  [[heterodox theories of economics]].
  
1. Give a one sentence summary of the strategy proposed/analyzed.
 
  
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2. Encourage older students to become [[mentoring|peer mentors]] for younger classmates.
  
2. Provide a link to another wiki page that
 
  
a. summarizes the research method and findings (maybe use some quotes from the source)
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3. Utilize [[summer bridge programs|bridge programs]] to ease transition into introductory courses.
  
b. provides full citation of the source
 
  
c. links to the source
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4. [[Alter the introductory textbooks]] to better portray the diversity of the population.
  
d. records your name, your comments/questions if any, and your overall rating of the source
 
  
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5. [[Recruit and retain a diverse faculty]] that will have an impact students on a more diverse level.
  
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6. [[Actively recruit]] students who were may have been underprepared or unsure about the academic subject from high school.
1. Offer a course on ...
 

Latest revision as of 13:32, 20 September 2016

Top policies for departments


1. Offer a course on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Economics or on heterodox theories of economics.


2. Encourage older students to become peer mentors for younger classmates.


3. Utilize bridge programs to ease transition into introductory courses.


4. Alter the introductory textbooks to better portray the diversity of the population.


5. Recruit and retain a diverse faculty that will have an impact students on a more diverse level.


6. Actively recruit students who were may have been underprepared or unsure about the academic subject from high school.