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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

in 2015, just 25 percent of 12th-grade students nationwide performed at or above proficiency in math, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury. Nor are arguments over how math should be taught new.

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War upends plans for campus in Kyiv

Confessions of a Community College Dean

McGrew said he’d been eager to return to the country since he taught English there as a member of the Peace Corps in 2013 and 2015. “The reason they wanted to fund AUK was because they weren’t getting quality employees from the existing Ukrainian higher education system,” Shangraw said.

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Leveraging technology for effective Assessment feedback (part 1): How to do I.T.?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Being detailed also makes them more corrective than conversational (Carless and Boud, 2018) and undergraduate students, like mine, are still inclined towards heeding answers from their teachers. Although some may disagree with me, blaming it on the instructor for not making it more suggestive. 2021; Carless and Boud, 2018).

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The State of Public Trust in Higher Education: Insights from Gallup-Lumina Foundation: Changing Higher Ed® podcast 255 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

00:07:08] The State of Public Confidence in Higher Education Courtney Brown: But one of the concerning things that I saw in their data was that when they first started doing this in 2015, over 60% of people had a great deal of confidence in higher education, high, great deal of confidence.

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Renowned UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Killed in Oakland Hit-and-Run

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His research took him across the globe, from copper mines in Zambia to machine shops in Chicago and Hungary, and industrial facilities in post-Soviet Russia. He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021.

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Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

He served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) for 13 years (2002-2015), president of the Ohio State University for four years (1998-2002), and president of the University of Maryland, College Park for 10 years (1988-1998). Mine turned out to be mathematics. His discipline was history.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

I just got an article from a good friend of mine today talking about the whole situation at West Virginia University. And when I’m talking high quality digital, content, I’m not just talking about taking,class notes from 2015 and, turning that into a lecture. 00:07:14] Drumm: It really does. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah.