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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. “In order to be prepared for any scenario, King’s has been working with a number of colleges and universities to develop preferred transfer agreements. million was Feb.

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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

This article describes a Future Teachers of Color Summit. What Worked Structure The development of the FToC Summit began with our planning team, which included BIPOC teacher educators who represented diverse identity groups and educational experiences. Intercultural Development Research Association. link] Easton-Brooks, D.

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AI and the shifting currency of knowledge

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Skills that were highly prized and extensively taught, such as summarising information, comparing and contrasting concepts, translating scientific articles for a general audience, simple coding, and structuring arguments, are now declining in perceived and potentially actual value. What changed? Dec 11, 2024

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Community building: Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

A big challenge has been to communicate our events and raise awareness. He has been a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh for over a decade, where he has developed and delivered courses on European history, economic and social history, and statistics.

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European research universities group: doctoral supervisors should be trained

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The LERU paper says “neglect or violation of good supervision practice requires suitable repercussions,” possibly including temporary loss of the right to supervise, intensified training requirements or loss of funding. Yes In-Article Careers: 6 ” paraphrasing an African proverb.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 Study respondents reported spending $25.8 billion from their endowments in fiscal 2022, roughly $2 billion more than the $23.9 billion institutions spent in fiscal 2021.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.