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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). “We

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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

Yet, as higher education is increasingly reshaped by market logics, can open universities still claim to be engines of social progress, or have they become institutions that now reproduce the very inequalities they sought to dismantle? This question is not merely academic; it is profoundly political.

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Adding Value for Port Clients with Waterfront Engineering, Materials Handling Under One Roof

Clark Nesxen

Through annual service contracts at multiple ports on the East Coast, our waterfront engineers and industrial mechanical engineers are adding value for port clients by providing a single, cohesive source of specialized expertise. Clark Nexsen is unique in the scope of what we can offer a port authority.”.

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Ralph Gilles of Stellantis Named 2024 CCS Commencement Speaker

College for Creative Study

As a key member of the global Top Executive Team and the Stellantis Global Diversity Council, Gilles works to engineer a more inclusive and harmonious workplace as the executive sponsor for two employee business resource groups, the Stellantis African Ancestry Network Diaspora and the Working Parents Network.

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Adding interactivity in mathematics online workbooks using JSXGraph in STACK

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Our approach to the online workbooks was to use the STACK online assessment system and combine our experience gained with running the fully online course “ Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus ” (FAC) with materials from the HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) project workbooks.

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How CSCU is Building Strong Institutional Foundations: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 176 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

In 2005, he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Cheng, a first-generation student, earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Binghamton University and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami, where he was a James Michener Fellow. Terrence, welcome back to the show.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

In 2005, he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The CT state system is undergoing significant changes that will leverage its strengths in a state that is a minority majority to ensure equity and workforce preparation for the universities and colleges whose graduates are the engine of the state workforce.