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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Birmingham-Southern Board Votes to Remain Open

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Birmingham-Southern has also launched an effort to raise $200 million by May 2026. In 2010 it was discovered that errors in administering financial aid cost the college millions of dollars, which then prompted layoffs. The private Alabama college has made appeals to state and local authorities in recent months, requesting a $37.5

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Research co-creation may be the key to impact

SRHE

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate. Why is this divide important for SRHE?

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After the election: the end of season awards

SRHE

Having been Britain’s youngest MP at 26 when elected in 2010, he lost his very marginal seat in 2017, becoming at 36 the youngest male member of the House of Lords. He was ennobled in Boris Johnson’s 2020 Dissolution Honours, an honour said to be for running Johnson’s campaign to become Conservative Party leader. Student numbers are unknown.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These were questions we helped to answer over the summer, as Research Assistants on the Classroom Practices and Lecture Recording project , which was funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme. It builds on the Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures (FILL) developed by Wood et al. References Dancy. and Henderson.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

Too often, results are seen as evaluations rather than inputs into strategy and leadership development. Georgia State University developed a section of the provosts website to outline how survey results informed institutional decisions. Raised all my kids on campus. Hurney, Bonnie B. Mullinix and R.

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Want a job at Cambridge?

SRHE

Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. However, the Equality Act of 2010, making it discriminatory to enforce retirement by age, has helped to discourage contracts promising ‘permanence’.