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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. LAs were recruited by both personal invitation from the college faculty as well as traditional means through campuswide job postings.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.

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Feedback or Feedforward? It’s All About the Timing

The Scholarly Teacher

Feedback allows students to identify strengths and areas of growth, gain understanding of complex professional methods, and develop a repertoire of strategies to enhance their performance (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006). 2004), but that also feel manageable to the time constraints and demands many faculty face? Hattie, J., &

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. In all matters, culturally responsive strategies are utilized that foster trusting relationships and a sense of belonging. WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006. Excelencia in Education sees this as a program that is helping develop professionals and future faculty.

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

I also worked with faculty to build custom workshops for their courses. Now more than ever, Dweck’s (2006) message of a growth mindset is key to instill in our students. Champions : I cannot say enough about the value of people who believed in what we were doing and acted as an ambassador for our CS program. Liana Acri (she/her), M.Ed.,

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

In this third and final post, I turn our discussion to the utility of the analytics function and how it can achieve real institutional impact. Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students. link] 1353/rhe.2017.0013

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

In fact, the graduation rate for STEM majors in liberal arts colleges tends to be quite high–because faculty work hard to ensure that students interested in the sciences actually make it through these difficult majors. Nevermind that the drop-out rate from STEM majors is very high, especially at large universities.

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