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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bluford Library Archives at A&T. Supreme Court, in 1983, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in 1999, before retiring in 2001. The Fryes — who met as undergraduates at A&T and married Aug. 25, 1956 — have donated their personal archives (professional documents and artifacts) to the F.D. The Justice Henry E.

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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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4 Online Teaching Strategies To Promote Collaboration and Community

The Scholarly Teacher

Kagan (2001) suggests that strategies like this promote both social interaction and accountability in any learning environment. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 10(3–4), 137– 173. Students construct a written or oral response in the format or mode directed by the instructor. References: Buck, S.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

first female on the biology faculty NOTABLE ALUMNI of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Brunswick, ME William Cohen, Class of 1962, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration 1997-2001 NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, Lewisburg, PA Kenneth Langone, the CEO of Home Depot NOTABLE ALUMNI of BUTLER UNIVERSITY, Indianapolis, IN Arthur C.

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LinkList, an unripe fruit

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We even circulated the survey by hanging posters with descriptions and QR codes in the university library around finals revision time when we figured many students would be in. The survey was distributed through university communication channels and social media platforms. The dream lives on!

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Twenty years of peer support: The fellowship and solidarity of community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

I don’t want to take up space in the library if somebody else needs to be there. One that strives to create the environmental conditions where widening participation students can flourish and excel. The project did not emerge from a deficit model of our students. Where can I sit for long periods of time? ” References Banning, J.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

After the exercise of 2001 with its 68 Units of Assessment there was growing concern about the fairness of a method of assessment based on disciplinary or subject ‘units’. Project funding was to continue to be sought in the form of grants, including those from Research Councils which were also moved within UKRI.