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Veteran Sues U.S. Government, Alleges Racial Discrimination Against Black Vets

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

government, alleging that it has historically discriminated against Black military veterans, denied them access to housing and education benefits, and rejected service-related disability claims at far higher rates than other veterans, Task & Purpose reported. A Marine Corps veteran is suing the U.S. The suit – filed Nov.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

2001; Lang, 2021; Thomas, 2009).The Learning-centered teachers create environments that positively impact students through shared governance of the learning space. 2019; Smith, 2013). Scholars have identified a gap between desired outcomes and instructional methods employed in the college classroom (Duch et al., 2019; Silvestri, 2005).

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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

SRHE

In some countries, universities have been subject to government control, with appointments and administrative positions influenced by political interests, leading to violations of academic autonomy and freedom. How does corporate governance affect the relationship between institutional autonomy and academic freedom?

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Washington’s expertise is sought after and granted across religious, government, corporate, and educational settings. Dr. Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I

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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students. 2001), I am amazed you are still functioning. If you are still delivering learning experiences the same way that you did in the 1990s, despite Google Search (b.1998)

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government. How commonplace this student loan grift was has not been adequately explored.

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