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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is year 19 for Examples of Excelencia, an annual recognition given by Excelencia in Education. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Brown, Excelencia in Education has the stated mission to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. Santiago and Sarita E. The foundation has existed for 33 years.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open access works can be made available through OA publishers and/or OA repositories ( Suber 2004 ). Benefits of using open access resources in teaching There are many reasons engaging with OA content is beneficial across all aspects of higher education.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

percent in 2004 to 54.4 Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. “There’s a lot of graduate education and a lot of research, and that’s where a lot of the staff and administrators are.”