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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Jonah Kokodyniak, senior vice president for program development and partner services at the Institute of International Education, said it's the kind of assault on the values of higher education that prompts an international response. He said that while U.S. Simon’s Rock, Mass.; and Berlin. .; and Berlin.

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10 Quality Nutrition and Health Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

You want the experience to mean something to the community, to make an impact, and to sincerely raise awareness about nutrition this National Nutrition Awareness Month. Happy National Nutrition Awareness Month, friends! Well, very shortly (March). Or is that just me? Project-based learning is a FANTASTIC way to do that.

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The case for Luddism against ChatGPT (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

So many questions raised. “I’ll just use ChatGPT to write it.” ” That was the first thing I heard from a student on campus this January. They weren’t addressing me but answering a classmate who had asked how they were going out that night given an assignment’s looming deadline. Why the Essay?

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

I took a gap year, completed an undergraduate degree, and subsequently received funding for a Master’s and a PhD. I believe I am one of the first of this new generation of highly indebted graduates to have been afforded the time and space to develop expertise around and reflect on the HE system I was a part of. It is Sisyphean.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons.

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Trying to teach students to tolerate disagreeable speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner.

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12 Community Action Project Ideas to Wrap Up the School Year

Experiential Learning Depot

Design and Make a Product: The idea behind this community action project is that students design and make something that raises awareness and provides a tangible outcome. The product should be usable or sellable to raise money for the chosen cause. That is technically raising awareness, but it's not a head-turner.