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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

School of Social Work, Clark Atlanta Universit Dr. Ja'Bette Lozupone , director of student affairs, Montgomery College Dr. Darris R. Gerald Carter , assistant professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB), The Ohio State University Dr. Nathaniel Currie , assistant professor, Whitney M.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. “I Do no harm. But he knew the church did not approve of homosexuality.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, there was only an unapproved (not officially recognized by the university) LGBTQ student group. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says.

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

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This blog is based on an article published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education (online 02 January 2025) [link] Bashiru Mohammed is a final year PhD student at the faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. He also holds Masters in Higher education and students affairs from the same university. References AAU, (2001).

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How to Find Your Footing in Assessment in 9 Easy Steps

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

This month marks my first full year as a Student Affairs assessment professional. You come to Student Affairs assessment with 11 years of student-facing experience in other areas of higher education. It’s just a matter of learning all about Student Affairs, right? But it’s not completely uplifting.

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Student engagement inside and outside the classroom

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Evidence suggests that “in general, the more contact between students and faculty both inside and outside the classroom, the greater the student development and satisfaction” (Kuh & Hu 2001, p. In C Bryson (ed) Understanding and developing student engagement: perspectives from universities and students.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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. Colorado State University Journal of Student Affairs, 10, pp9-20. Appraising Tinto’s theory of college student departure.