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Museum Studies Program Seeks to Diversify the Field

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the core goals of the program – it was launched in 2019 – is to diversify museum staff, which then may affect museum curation, said Dr. Valerie Paley, Senior Vice President and Sue Ann Weinberg Director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at New-York Historical.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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

The Scholarly Teacher

2019; Salam et al., 2019) found that service-learning leads to the “overall betterment of the local community” (p. Community outreach with MPH and honors students in October 2019 at the Southside library, Chattanooga, TN. In a meta-analysis of the service-learning literature, Salam et al. Cherian, T., Patel, K., &

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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Dissertation Week in the Library: 11-15 November 2019

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Christine Love-Rodgers, College Lead for Library Academic Support (CAHSS), provides an in-depth assessment of the University’s first Dissertation Week event that took place in November 2019… The University of Edinburgh Library held its first Dissertation Week on November 11-15 2019.

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BMCC Grad Looks to Make Restaurants More Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On a Friday night in 2019, Gesy Duran prepared to dine at an Italian restaurant with her wife. You could take it anywhere and use for it anything from eating meals to studying in a library. She was excited for the special occasion. Duran had been paralyzed three years earlier, and this was the first time she had gone out since. “I

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