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10 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Course Materials

Eric Stoller

Finances were always tight, so I tried to balance my checkbook with buying actual books. Colleges and universities are quickly shifting from books to bytes to improve the student experience and boost course outcomes. A better experience for students with disabilities. Even then, textbooks weren’t cheap. It’s just not possible.

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Success for College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Community College, Composition View

The Scholarly Teacher

In a current research study, regarding preferred accommodations in composition classes, students preferred books on tape or other recording and extended time for assignments and tests (Dewey, 2023). link] safety/disability-services/differences.aspx DO-IT. Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology:| DO-IT.

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Study analyzes why college students in counseling withdraw

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Isserles, a professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and author of the book The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College ( Johns Hopkins University Press , 2021), questioned whether those numbers would have been higher among students who had not sought counseling. percent and 2.7

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Supporting Neurodivergent College Students with Dr. Liz Norell

Dr. Al Solano

Even students who've registered with disability services may qualify for accommodations that they don't ask for because the stigma around these diagnoses can feel really scary." They assume that these accommodations are trying to cheat the system or game the system in some way. That is definitely not it."

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Student Success & Equity with Dr. Christine Harrington

Dr. Al Solano

The focus of the episode is her book, Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty. Christine is the author of numerous books and articles related to teaching and learning. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn about culturally affirming and meaningful assignments.

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Podcast: Student Wellbeing and the Hidden Costs of Financial Hardship (Part 2) – Episode 8

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The rest was left to the disability service, I think there was about five of them. If you are a current student and would like to speak to a wellbeing adviser about your mental health, you are more than welcome to book in a drop-in session here. For a school of over a thousand students, we had one pastoral support woman.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Indiana University of Pennsylvania decided to explore three-year degrees for an entirely different reason: the loss of faculty members to retrenchments and retirements, said Lori Lombard, a professor and chair of the Department of Communication Disorders, Special Education and Disability Services.