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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stop-Out, Drop-Out, The Great Resignation There are countless books, articles, and dissertations framed from scholar Dr. Vincent Tinto’s theory of social integration. The premise of the theory is the more engaged students are, the more likely they will succeed.

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Enterprise Education: The future of education at The University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Furthermore, I could not finish this article without mentioning the more recent Entrepreneurial Campus report authored by Ross Tuffee and Prof Joe Little.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The final assessment was a ‘response article’ that contributed to the debate over one of the papers by critiquing its arguments or developing its thesis in some new direction. The best response articles (and many were excellent) were sent to the theorists in question. The theorists then had a chance to respond to the responses.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

To cope with this wide spectrum of projects, we use the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) reflective framework. This is described in more detail in a previous Teaching Matters article.

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Mini-series: Turning internships into blog posts and friendship into teamwork

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. Some of the IS Interns at one of our memorable lunches.

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Searching Uncertainty – determining the value of your university experience

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was reminded of an article I read at the very beginning of my studies in 2012. In a year where so much change was happening all around me, I couldn’t help but feel a little lost; a little uncertain. What future?

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From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures

Teaching Matters Student Employment

You can read more about this project in the following article: McMillan, C., From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures. Loads, D., & McQueen, H. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, (13).