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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A scholar who has authored or coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, Gilliam is founder of UChicago’s Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) and board member for Argonne National Laboratory, a Department of Energy-supported research lab affiliated with UChicago.

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Striving for Digital Equity in Education

The Scholarly Teacher

In this article we recognize that the inequity in technology integration is not simply getting access to technology or the funds to access the internet but also understanding how to select and use the tool to enhance teaching and learning activities.

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

The Scholarly Teacher

This article describes two examples of public health service-learning combined with other HIPs that have resulted in high student engagement and success. Community outreach with MPH and honors students in October 2019 at the Southside library, Chattanooga, TN.

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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

There were other success stories, too, as described in this New York Times article: [Julian] Gonzalez, whose factory-worker parents had grade-school educations, got an M.B.A. Continuing community outreach initiatives including those that create pathways from pre-academic readiness efforts to higher education.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

MacDonald’s recent articles offer a number of over-the-top examples of text and labels that are both formulaic and hyperbolic (even if cherry-picked). Major museums, even more than public and private universities, must navigate a fraught, contentious environment without the broad base of support that comes from alumni.

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Texas A&M’s Student Leadership Development Programs: People Support What They Help Create

The Change Leader, Inc.

The whole idea was for us to communicate and to discuss any problems or concerns that they had or I had, Koldus said in a Texas A&M Foundation article. His template for how student organizations function continues today. The Department of Student Activities has a database of more than 1,000 student organizations.