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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Awarded 2022 Linda C. Tillman Social and Racial Justice Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His ability to make academic research useful and relevant to racial and social justice in schools and communities is integral to UCEA and the University of Kentucky’s mission.” s top public influencers in education since 2014 – is currently on the executive committee and education co-chair for the Kentucky NAACP.

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

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Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. Research has shown that a diverse team of health care providers has been linked to improved care and to financial savings. Michael Brown, a Black teenager, had been fatally shot by a white police officer, and the city was on fire.

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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

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Methodology and Conceptual framework The quantitative and predictive nature of the investigation necessitated the use of an explanatory research design. The formulation of the conceptual model was influenced by the nature of proposed research questions backed by the supporting theories purported in the context of the study.

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Success Story: Wesleyan University

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She’s also been active with NAFSA, serving as a research and scholarship network leader from January 2016 to December 2018 and as chair of NAFSA Region V in 2014. “I Outside of her work at Wesleyan, she’s also active in the Education Abroad community. Emily has served as a Forum Council member since July 2020.

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Engaging students in learning outside the university

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Marion explains: I was heavily involved in the design and implementation of the new undergraduate MA in Health, Science and Society in 2013-2014. The main thrust of the MA programme, with its interest in social justice, was a perfect environment to develop these aims and to contribute to University priorities. Sep 27, 2018

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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Mental health in our professional practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Within my teaching and research practice, I have been seeking to explore this complex set of relationships. Instead, the moving body in space affords the chance for asking fundamental questions of social justice: who is the environment for? Environmental Education Research , 25 (3), 341-364. Who designed it?