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Success for College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Community College, Composition View

The Scholarly Teacher

Challenges Unlike in K-12 settings, students who self-identify are provided accommodations, rather than modifications, per the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which is designed to ensure “equal access” ( Differences Between HS and College , 2022). allowing the student extended time on tests) (DO-IT, 2022).

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Two ed-tech companies team up with hopes to improve transfer

Parchment

Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?: Yes In-Article Careers: 3 “Tuition wasn’t cheap. It was a very expensive error on my part.”

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

While Wikipedia has significant reach and influence, it also has significant gaps in its coverage of topics, articles in other languages and the diversity of its editors. The result is that our community is more engaged with knowledge creation online and readers all over the world benefit from our teaching, research and collections.

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My Wild Adventure to Hope College

Hope College Network

Fast forward two and half years later, I am now right here at Hope College more than 8,000 miles away from my family writing this article. One of my closest peers Ada Rios (’24) mentioned that starting your application early is important. Arrival at Grand Rapids Airport to embark on my Hope College experience.

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Building maintenance issues admissions leaders should know about (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Older buildings typically have been renovated and retrofitted countless times and were not designed for modern HVAC systems, ADA accessibility and active learning classrooms. Old bathrooms, which are virtually impossible to make ADA accessible, let alone gender-neutral, without violating municipal laws regarding fixture counts.