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Small College America – Profile: Whitman College

Edu Alliance Journal

Its 117-acre campus blends historic architecture with modern facilities, creating an inviting environment for academic pursuits and campus life. One hallmark program at Whitman is Semester in the West, a unique field-based study experience where students engage directly with environmental and policy research across the American West.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

About Our Podcast Guest Brent Miller is Business Leader for Higher Education at HED , one of the largest integrated architecture & engineering firms in the US. He believes that thoughtful design not only enriches the campus experience but also prepares students for their future careers. and international institutions.

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An online surge at Virginia Tech. But what about outcomes?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Good Intentions, Enthusiastic Students A massive online course may have one advantage over a course with hundreds of students in a lecture hall, according to Ortegas. That is, the online format may provide students with opportunities to engage.

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Welcome to May–June Learning and Teaching Enhancement Theme: Building Community

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

James Haynes James is currently a third-year architecture student at The University of Edinburgh with a keen interest in illustration and social impact causes. Outside of his studies, James is involved with community focused architecture practice, a number of arts organisations and third-sector consultancy.

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The group project SLICC in medicine: “In this course, you can do anything you want to…”

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Final projects are presented at a showcase event, and also as an open website showcase on the MBChB website to provide a view from outside the programme into the medicine curriculum and our students. Could you give something of that freedom to your students? Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It’s the four or five “in the middle” who either have not thought about it or have not considered it as an option who are the ones that we are interested in engaging with to help them explore their potential. The craft analogy also then opens doors to viewing entrepreneurship as a profession like medicine and architecture.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. Elliott, welcome to the show.