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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

What’s Worked: Two Examples Environmental Justice Project In Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Southside Chattanooga Lead Superfund Site extends across 8 neighborhoods just south of the university’s campus (Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2017. How student enrollment changed in 2022.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Rethinking college student development theory using critical frameworks. Jones, & D-L Stewart (Eds.), Stylus.Love, B. We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press Menakem, R. My grandmother’s hands: Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Courses bound into teacher preparation programs offer opportunities to connect students’ academic lives to their growing professional identities as educators and are a necessary component of MSI pedagogy (Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020). Small changes to class time can better connect underserved students to university resources.

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How professional digital ePortfolios can enhance employability and professional identity

SRHE

Closely related to employability, ePortfolios showcase applicant credentials and digital competence, allowing universities to assess students creatively, and allowing hiring organisations to determine applicants’ skills for entering the job market ( Ring et al, 2017 [RC1] ).

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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. The goal was every student would receive an access code by the 2020-21 academic year.

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Empowering Your Students’ Agency Through Ungrading Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Intrinsic motivation is bolstered by enabling student agency in the classroom. Choices give students the freedom to “intervene in and influence their learning environments and learning pathways” (Klemenčič, 2017, p. Ungrading: Why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead), 91-104. Klemenčič, M.

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017. A forthcoming paper by Lamb suggests that the course also helped students develop a sense of purpose, including a greater “beyond-the-self” orientation.