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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. This allowed students to share their current feelings and experiences. During one of these meetings, two students spoke up and shared that they were homeless.

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Seed Investments Fund 15 Research Collaborations Between Virginia Tech and Minority-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since launching in 2016, the program has grown, with its list of partner schools expanding and new Virginia Tech departments taking part. This year is the first time for California State University Channel Islands, and Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture and Myers-Lawson School of Construction.

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Itinerant dimensions of field/work in architecture

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. – Ewing (2011), in ‘ Architecture and Field/Work’, p.4 The fieldtrip can act as a balance to this alleged weakness, and becomes a place for critical transformation of aspects of architectural knowledge and practice.

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These colleges are making new campuses with old parts—and growing along the way

University Business

After doubling its campus size in 2016 by purchasing a 500,000-square-foot complex from General Electric, Sacred Heart University (N.Y.) What to consider when remodeling SHU collaborated with The S/L/A/M Collaborative , an architecture firm, to gut the inside of old office buildings and reimagine them into something more significant.

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Get Wild! Gamification Creates Immersive, On-Demand Faculty Development 

The Scholarly Teacher

Interaction Design and Architecture(s) , 29 , 76–92. The team’s research indicated that including game elements creates a more captivating training that holds the learners’ interest and increases motivation. The specific game elements incorporated include immersion, decisions, goals, and challenges (Landers et al., 2019; Pozzi et al.,

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Searching Uncertainty – determining the value of your university experience

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I graduated, as a student of Architecture, in 2016; a year replete with uncertainty. Ruairidh Maxwell Having graduated from the MA Architecture programme at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, Ruairidh has started his postgraduate studies. So much change took place in such a short space of time. What future?

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The Global Sand Crisis: Examining Causes, Consequences, and Sustainable Alternatives

Clark Nesxen

Courtesy of Waechter Architecture Going Forward In the end, without massive reform and huge changes in the global construction industry, we will continue to face a sand crisis. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture and a minor in Sustainable Urban Planning at Virginia Tech with plans to graduate in the spring of 2026.

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