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A Pioneer for Change - Dr. Brittany Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This ability to expand her learning and her research came to a head when she was just months away from defending her dissertation. Although she did not have extensive training in public health, she dove into research, finding books, articles, and speaking circuits to learn more. She gives thanks to her mentors guidance.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Imagine two postdoctoral researchers in an academic lab. However, if one of them were awarded a prestigious training fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, that same postdoc may lose their employment status with their institution, causing a loss of critical employee benefits in their overall compensation package.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rethinking the Minor Four-year institutions can learn much from the partnership between the community colleges and corporations like the Ford Motor Company. The research on college minors and their effects on student outcomes is scant if not nonexistent. Yes In-Article Careers: 6 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Ethicality in academic knowledge production

SRHE

by Dina Zoe Belluigi ‘Research cultures’, and their problematics, have received sufficient attention to have been delineated various definitions by authoritative groups within the university/ research ecology in the United Kingdom, and amongst scholars in our field of enquiry. Qualitative reflections enriched the analysis.

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How two-way texting aids in student support and retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. No In-Article Careers: 3

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Pursuit of R-2 status can expand opportunity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

There is that conjectural concern that as universities become more research-oriented, or move “up” in Carnegie classification, seeking R-2 (high research activity) or R-1 (very high research activity) status, they become less focused on students, more exclusive and less responsive to their communities’ needs.

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Catalyzing a sense of community in classrooms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What it is: Chatterjea and her colleagues Nancy Bostrom, associate director of assessment, and Bethany Miller, director of institutional research and assessment, launched the Classroom Community and Connectedness Project at Macalester in September 2021. No In-Article Careers: 3

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