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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. We realized that we had the technology, capability, and infrastructure, but our institutions needed more curriculum development and engagement. But then we had a snag. Were shaping it.

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Approaches to Equality and Diversity in Higher Education Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Higher education in the UK is experienced differently by our diverse student cohorts. Vicky Gunn: Conceptualising the disciplines’ role in inclusive teaching practice Higher Education needs to foster disciplinary sameness and transformation simultaneously. Teaching in Higher Education. 16 (6), 669-679.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). American College Health Association (2016).

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

While these examples do come with the challenges and risks of embracing spontaneity and sharing ownership (Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, Millard, & Moore-Cherry, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., A model of active student participation in curriculum design: Exploring desirability and possibility. Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208.

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Student-staff co-creation of a course: Understanding gender in the contemporary world

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

There is an increasing emphasis in higher education on promoting student voice and engagement, positioning students as partners in the teaching and learning process. Curriculum Co-Creation: Challenges Engaging students in curriculum development can be both empowering and disempowering.

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Recapturing the excitement of lectures

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Other lecturers are using electronic voting systems (Bates, Howie & Murphy, 2006), social media (Ross, 2016) and ‘technology enhanced active learning spaces’ (Roger, Ney & Liote, 2016) to enhance the level of engagement in the subject and to promote paired and small group working in large classes. Revell, A. &

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Curriculum of Research: Trends in Student Affairs Assessment Syllabi

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Faculty described feeling similarly unsure of curriculum development, both in terms of what prior knowledge students might have and what could be considered the “core” topics of higher education assessment. All syllabi collected were reviewed for any texts that were required for the course. Schuh, J.H., Biddix, J.P.,