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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. This service-learning project idea combines hands-on community service with meaningful educational experiences.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022?

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The Admissions Game

Higher Education Inquirer

Books that are not best sellers or readily available in public libraries. The 400 year history of American higher education begins with selective admissions. The GI Bill and Civil Rights The 20th century saw some progress in expanding access to higher education. In 1836, the first women's college, Wesleyan College , was founded.

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

of all NIH-funded studies concerned LGBTQ+ health—excluding projects about HIV/AIDS and other sexual health matters, according to the National Library of Medicine. Outside of the university, UPenn and Eidos are working with Violet, a start-up health equity platform, to develop their pedagogy on LGBTQ+ cultural competency.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. Raise your profile by allowing your resources to be improved by other users and attributed back to you. How we can help! Apr 1, 2016

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

Credit for Prior Learning has long been utilized by higher education to award credit for work, life or training experience. But what the credential lab is doing at Higher Learning Commission is creating with generous funding from Lumina Foundation and ECMC Foundation, two work streams. Yeah, please. Melanie Booth (08:34.412) me?

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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

CAPD

Julia Mongo | Office of Distinguished Fellowships Published by MIT News on November 16, 2024 Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo have been selected as 2025 Rhodes Scholars and will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. In addition to MIT’s two U.S.