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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. Truly universal transferability would require faculty buy-in and better digital tools. Government Accountability Office.

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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Her two lives as an educator have enabled her to develop, pilot, research, refine, and share a model for differentiating instruction in todays diverse classrooms.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

2019; Smith, 2013). Although substantial research has been conducted on the topic of effective teaching (Campbell et al., Although substantial research has been conducted on the topic of effective teaching (Campbell et al., Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course. 2019; Silvestri, 2005).

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UNCF, Steve Fund, and TMCF Partner for National Initiative to Support Mental Health at Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program will now begin administering a customized Black college module of the Health Minds Study, the most comprehensive research survey on mental health in higher education.

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UNC Chancellor Dr. Kevin M. Guskiewicz Appointed President of Michigan State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Guskiewicz Guskiewicz – a neuroscientist, sports medicine researcher, and academic leader – is currently chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his time at UNC, he founded the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; led the school’s $1.2

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Similarly, the report cited research that showed that the median earnings of full-time workers with an undergrad degree in English and any graduate degree was $65,851, approximately $5,000 lower than that of all majors with a graduate degree, $70,917. in English. “[It

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. However, Odle’s team found that the faculty in these matches were more likely to be temporary staff or adjuncts, rather than tenured or tenure-track.

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