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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. They’re on a journey.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. It also licenses nonprofit and for-profit higher education institutions in the state.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring.

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Top 12 Challenges Facing Higher Ed in 2025—and the Exemplars Solving Them: An overview of the most urgent issues impacting higher education, with examples of how some institutions are beginning to respond.

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher Ed Challenge 1: Declining Enrollment and Demographic Shifts Challenge: Enrollment numbers have decreased significantly, dropping from 18 million students in 2016 to 16.5 Additionally, public funding for higher education has declined in many states, shifting more of the financial burden onto students. million in 2022.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. Raise your profile by allowing your resources to be improved by other users and attributed back to you. Apr 1, 2016 How we can help! Such as Prof.

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PE4C Investigation and Student-Led Research Conference

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In addition to this, they are encouraged to attend a series of workshops that aim to develop their research skills, and to provide them with opportunities to develop communities of practice with students who are researching similar topics. I now believe in my organisational skills and that I can be pro-active in gaining funding.

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Welcome to the April issue of Teaching Matters: Building Academic Communities

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This in turn, has been shown to increase the feelings of belonging during students’ time at University, and, subsequently, raises educational success (e.g., Felten et al, 2016). Go Abroad Staff is one fantastic scheme offered to University staff, which funds and supports travel abroad. Lambert, L. M., & Barefoot, B.