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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements.

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Striving for Digital Equity in Education

The Scholarly Teacher

As members of the higher education community (instructors, students, and other education paraprofessionals), we work, study, and interact in a largely digital environment. The digital inequality in higher education affects both instructors and students.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Given the lower achievement and other negative outcomes of Black and Hispanic students in our schools often due to racial prejudice and discrimination (i.e., Department of Education created the “ National Parents and Families Engagement Council to Help Ensure recovery Efforts Meet Students’ Needs.” In 2022, the U.S.

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Languages beyond University: A course offering community engagement in local schools for academic credit

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Furthermore, we hope they will gain a near-peer role model with our student, who is currently in higher education. As an institution, such community engagement activities help address addressing the complex issues surrounding widening participation. Photo credit: Annette Götzkes.

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Co-created learning and teaching through the lens of the development of a University-wide course

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Delivering: Designing a website, Learn page and final presentation to communicate findings from the consultations, brainstorming sessions and prototypes for the course.