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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. It’s a specialized, accelerated, elite experience,” he said.

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Cornell Faculty Member Arrested for Comments at Coulter Talk

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Cornell University communication professor Monica Cornejo was arrested for disorderly conduct Tuesday during a campus seminar led by conservative media personality Ann Coulter, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Courses offer career exploration to undeclared students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Faculty were also eager to demonstrate their interdisciplinary work, which made it natural to launch the courses. What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. The program launched in fall 2019, and the initial course focused on food.

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Facilitating online peer interactions to sustain student motivation

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Drawing from her rich experience in socially interactive educational methodologies, Dr. Smith discusses the pivotal role of active learning seminars in the SLICC (Student-Led Individually Created Course) in Critical Care, particularly tailored for healthcare professionals.

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Asking the Right Questions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Is your college coastal? Has it started to change policies on faculty and other employee travel in light of airplanes’ emissions of greenhouse gasses? It’s a useful, and sometimes harrowing, reality check.

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The Dangers of Dogmatism

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Professor Lloyd asked the non-profit Telluride Association if he could lead one of its free summer seminars for highly motivated diverse high school students. ” What Professor Lloyd discovered was that his seminar and the anti-racism workshops were very different beasts.