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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. Early this month, Becker and other Bard leaders met to discuss how to get around this potential problem.

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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. You don't want your students slapping together a poster board, presenting that board to the class, and tossing it in the trash. Or is that just me?

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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.

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Guiding Students to Overcome Barriers To Student Success In Higher Education With Career Counseling

Creatrix Campus

Personal Development In addition to addressing professional development, career counseling provides tools for handling time, stress, and other personal difficulties. Create a fund to assist students who have unforeseen financial difficulties in an emergency situation. This is often the much talked about topic.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. Julianne : Great question, and my research on identity development ties in with this. Why do we plan for a lecture and separate seminar when we want students to engage in active/project/problem-based learning?

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

Encouraging that has never been set as an objective – the sole purpose for a long time was ‘to inform funding’ – but the constant improvement implied by the figures is the basis for getting more money out of the Treasury. a year, its citation share by 1.4% a year, its field-weighted impact by 0.2% Environment obviously posed problems.

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Make it possible for instructors to provide more individualized feedback and to participate in more student engagement activities (like student-faculty lunches or co-curricular activities), by, for example, shifting from 3 to 4 credit hour classes and giving faculty access to modest student engagement funds.