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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Heads of OER initiatives should look to involve representatives from as many parts of campus as possible, including DEI leaders, social justice officers, instructional designers, disability services workers, institutional research officers, faculty, librarians, and students.

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

SRA used social media to create communities of students before arrival at the University. SRA also leads the University’s Social Media Community. Scholarships and Student Funding work with The Advice Place, Finance and ACE; the Careers Service works with Student Disability Service , and SRA. The list goes on.

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Supporting Neurodivergent College Students with Dr. Liz Norell

Dr. Al Solano

Even students who've registered with disability services may qualify for accommodations that they don't ask for because the stigma around these diagnoses can feel really scary." She has spent more than 20 years teaching in higher education, including stints in composition, journalism, new media, and political science.

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Podcast: Student Wellbeing and the Hidden Costs of Financial Hardship (Part 2) – Episode 8

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The rest was left to the disability service, I think there was about five of them. Grace agrees and talks about how the 93% club is running a social media campaign called #stateschoolproud: “Growing up it was difficult and that is going to probably impact you for the rest of your life, but you can be proud of that.

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Subtitling pilot project at Moray House: Review and reflections

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We recruited three individuals to the team who had experience subtitling media at other large organisations and Universities. Secondly, we worked with Student Disability Services to help identify courses where there were students with a schedule who we may not have been aware of. Our aim was to focus solely on teaching material.

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Wellbeing matters. But how can we enhance wellbeing across the academic community?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The fully accessible centre houses the main bases for Student Counselling , Student Disability Service , the Equally Safe team, the University Health Centre , and an independent pharmacy. The University of Edinburgh has created a dedicated Health and Wellbeing Centre for students. Aug 1, 2022