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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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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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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. 2019, December 9).

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Visual Journaling

The Scholarly Teacher

Visual Journals are a derivative of an artist’s sketchbook; however, the difference is in the intention or purpose and process (Dalton, 2023; Strickland, 2019). Visual literacy is the capacity to analyze, evaluate, utilize, and create images and visual media. American Library Association. 2019, February 19 ). 2011/2022).

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Mini-series: Student subtitling project to improve accessibility of online media materials

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo credit: Pixabay, stockphoto, CC0 In this post, Professor Tina Harrison and Anne Marie-Scott write about the recent media subtitling pilot at The University of Edinburgh, and discuss the many benefits for students… At Edinburgh, we are working to improve the accessibility of our digital content for the benefit of all our audiences.

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Engaging young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

As younger generations spend a lot of time on social media, making sure they can find and share information online about STEM careers and, in particular, profiles of women who have worked in these fields is important. May 28, 2019 References McAndrew, E., O’Connor, S., Thomas, S., & White, A. New Statesman.

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UncoverEd: Interrogating Edinburgh’s imperial history as a global university

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The aim was to produce at least one biography each of a ‘notable’ alumnus, leading up to a website and exhibition in January 2019. The UncoverEd website will be launched later 27 November 2018, and the exhibition will be held in the Crystal Macmillan building in January 2019.