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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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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. This year’s college freshmen were born in 2005. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible.

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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. The demand for professional interpreters and translators continues to grow.”

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A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” In 2020, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley sued the San Francisco–based Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library, which was created when physical libraries closed during COVID-19 lockdowns. ” Libraries that engage in controlled digital lending do so in many ways.

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Teaching and Learning in the Musical Instrument Collection at St Cecilia’s Hall

Teaching Matters Academic Support

She gained her MA in Museum and Gallery Management from City University in 1997 and in August 2005 took over as Curator of the Museum at the Royal College of Music. In 2013, she moved to a similar role in the Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh based at St Cecilia’s Hall.

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Adding interactivity in mathematics online workbooks using JSXGraph in STACK

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The HELM project HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) is a collection of 50 workbooks developed by five English universities – Loughborough, Hull, Reading, Sunderland and Manchester – between 2002 and 2005. HELM resources cover the curriculum of first and second year mathematics courses for engineering undergraduates [1].

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How Tulane Transformed Post-Katrina Through Crisis Management: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 006 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Scott Cowen

The Change Leader, Inc.

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Scott was just six years into his tenure of 16 years at Tulane. There is no one that I can call to give me guidance; there is no book I can take out of the library, and there is no consultant that I can hire. I dont know how Im going to do it.