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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years.

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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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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election. But his effect was also in modeling what it was to be a successful researcher. The fruits of Gates efforts to provide strong science education can be found across the globe.

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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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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. More than 60% of students met criteria for one or more mental health problems in 2021, an almost 50% increase since 2013. college students.

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high.

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Christopher Edley, Prominent Legal Scholar, Passes Away

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Orrick, Jr.