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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. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Bevlee Watford Taylor Cupp Established in 1992 by Dr. Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. Dr. Katrina Colucci-Chang, now a biomedical engineer/project manager with the U.S.

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Political tensions erupt at Bakersfield College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Renegade members say they’ve been falsely accused of racism and their jobs are at risk after some of them raised questions about a racial climate survey at an October diversity committee meeting. The students raised their concerns about the group to the Kern Community College District Board of Trustees in a meeting last month.

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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Our starting point was the reform of the History pre-honours curriculum , in which skills training and, by extension, raising awareness of the value of a degree in History, were a key aspect. Better articulate to students how HCA courses help develop skills for future careers.

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Mini-series: A summary of recently published lecture recording papers

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We have continued to keep an eye on new research being published in the sector in addition to commissioning and funding lecture recording research at the University through our Engagement and Evaluation group (much of it already covered in this mini-series). The next call for PTAS funding will close in March. References Draper, M.

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President moves: A narrow no-confidence vote results in this leader’s exit

University Business

At Augusta, Mackinnon held an “expanded provost’s position” over three and a half years in which he helped develop and implement the public research university’s strategic plan and oversaw its success and belonging programs, enrollment and other metrics, according to a press release.

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Supporting student transitions into online learning

Teaching Matters Online Learning

To help support student transitions into (and through) online learning, I had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative project earlier this year funded by QAA Scotland as part of their transitions work. “It was a privilege to work on this collaborative project to develop resources for students transitioning to online learning.