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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Through planning and organizing this service-learning project, students develop responsibility, compassion, and communication skills as they coordinate with residents and work in teams. They love engaging their peers and the community in fun events while developing essential skills like networking, budgeting, and marketing.

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Raising the Bar: Leveraging Accreditation and Its Influence on Transfer and Credit Mobility

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Beyond Transfer The nation cannot achieve equity in student outcomes without intentionally addressing how current credit mobility and transfer policies and practices are denying students recognition of and credit for high-quality learning. Still others declined to be interviewed or did not respond to repeated outreach attempts.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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A student partnership project to enhance curriculum development in medical education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We were keen to work with students as pedagogical co-creators – developing the learning strategy and resources – and hoped that this kind of partnership would enhance the process and the outcomes of the curriculum design by introducing new and potentially different perspectives and experiences.

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Welcome to the Oct-Dec Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2024

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Ceilidh dancing at the Celebration of Culture events at R(D)SVS – one of the funded SPA projects in 2024. One way in which the University supports putting the tenets of this Agreement into practice is through Student Partnership Agreement Funding. Image credit: R(D)SVS / Maggie Bennett.

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10 Quality Nutrition and Health Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

You want the experience to mean something to the community, to make an impact, and to sincerely raise awareness about nutrition this National Nutrition Awareness Month. This blog post is how I can help you with that through a project-based learning approach! Or is that just me? Project-based learning is a FANTASTIC way to do that.

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Why the Term ‘Friendraising’ Makes Me Cross

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Ken Burnett’s classic 1992 fundraising text, Relationship Fundraising , taught and touted the value of developing relationships with donors based on the attributes of friendship, such as care, understanding, respect and mutual trust. Unethical or illegal activities.