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College Students Face Widespread Basic Needs Insecurity, New Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When broadening the definition of basic needs to include mental health, transportation, internet access, and childcare, the percentage of students experiencing insecurity jumps to 73%, painting a stark picture of the challenges college students face while pursuing their education.

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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There’s definitely risk associated with data privacy. The study found that issues of privacy, while valid, are often used in a broadly—like a talisman, as the authors put it—to short-circuit conversations about data sharing. Folks are right to point out the real concerns that exist [about] data privacy,” said Gagliardi.

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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While the authors use deliberate in their definition, I urge readers to understand that such violence can also be unintentional. Specifically, whether intentional or unintentional, harm has been done to students/learners.

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Adventures in Ungrading

The Scholarly Teacher

Be clear and concise with your syllabus language to communicate the definition of ungrading and how it will be used in your course. Consider including a definition, how you will provide feedback, what students should do with the feedback, why you are ungrading, and how it matches with overall course expectations and objectives.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the necessities that these funds have covered are car repair, utility bills and groceries. There are definitely ways to strengthen these policies, including conducting extensive research on implementation, communication and student experiences accessing state funding.” It’s a game changer for many of our students,” she notes.

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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The utility of tech skillsets like competence in computer programming languages is multidimensional as it is used to build websites and software applications that operate cellphones, thermostats, airplanes, elevators, video games, social media, and so much more. This is all a part of tech context.

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Retrieval Practice, Scaffolding, and the Socratic Method

The Scholarly Teacher

Photo by , Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Socrates also scrutinizes “the consistency of his partners” and utilizes “concrete examples to drive his reasoning” (Farnsworth, 2021, p. Such exchanges help them see for themselves that understanding requires more than the ability to recall a basic definition from a textbook.

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