Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Now that we’re starting to get the results, we’re able to tell our social justice story.” Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. Some are more ideological, touching on interfaith, sustainability, conflict resolution, leadership or social justice.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 21, 2024

College of Science and Engineering Teacher of the Year, Dimitrios Gerogiorgis, School of Engineering (Photo credit: EUSA) This year’s Teacher of the Year is Dimitrios Gerogiorgis , from the School of Engineering. Dimitrios was praised by students for being not just a skilled educator, but an inspiring one.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JUNE 1, 2023

Personal Tutor of the Year Uwe Schneider – Winner Alasdair Richmond Shari Sabeti Student Tutor of the Year Camden McKenna – Winner Albert Mkony Adam Vacek Teacher of the Year (College of Science and Engineering) Richard Milne – Winner Alex Rowe Filipe Teixeira-Dias Outstanding Innovation in Digital Teaching Katharine Aulton – (..)

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 3, 2022

The Teaching Awards 2022 winners will be announced at our online Ceremony that will be aired on the Students’ Association Facebook on Wednesday 25 May, 2022. Congratulations to all nominees for your achievements and thank you to all the students who nominated! How will we Celebrate Together?

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Study and Go Abroad

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After the course she remained in Costa Rica, taking Spanish classes in San José and later participated in an engineering internship at the National University of Technology (TEC) in Cartago. She began studying biomedical engineering at Brown University in Rhode Island this fall. Everybody should have a gap experience.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

women in engineering) or challenges faced by specific populations served at the institution to which they are applying (e.g., It gives job applicants clear guidelines that help them move past trite statements about social justice and political posturing. an historically Black college).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has been bringing together crucial voices and perspectives to positively impact Black life in American society. In 2021, TMCF launched the CSJ to advance social justice for Black Americans. The launch of The Payne Center Journal on Race and Social Justice is forthcoming.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 7, 2024

Photo credit: EUSA Here are our shortlists and winners in the Teaching Awards 2024: Cohort Lead of the Year Darrick Evensen (School of Social and Political Science) Claire Haggett (School of Social and Political Science) WINNER Justine Maclean (Moray House School of Education and Sport) Outstanding Commitment to Social Justice and Sustainability Inga (..)

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 6, 2023

As demonstrated by Prof Iain Gordon, Head of College of Science and Engineering, in the Welcoming Address, when he asked for a show of hands for those who had been to the Kings Buildings before, this was a first trip to the campus for many delegates.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Dr. DeSanctis currently serves as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Higher Education and the Workforce; a member of Jobs for the Future Policy Trust Council; on the Workforce Development Committee of Downtown Denver Partnership; and as a Board Member of the Colorado Education Initiative.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2023

Photo credit: Engin Akyurt, Unsplash , CC0 In this post, which kicks off a short series reflecting on Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) , Kate Orton-Johnson, Director of Education in EFI, takes stock of EFI’s first year of delivering PGT courses, reflecting on the lessons learnt along the way.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 13, 2025

Also, you'll notice that each driving question idea connects to a variety of subjects and concepts, including art, history, science, math, writing, literature, engineering, and more. As you read through the 20 Black History Month project driving questions in this post, keep these elements in mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Chapter 3: Ford, D.Y. Chapter 17: Ash, B.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Throughout their history, HBCUs have been engines of economic empowerment and transformative in playing an outsized role in society by fostering personal and professional growth, promoting social justice, and empowering individuals to become game changers in the world. Here’s further proof of the impact of HBCUs in the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Higher education is an engine for social and economic mobility. Hopefully, that will help policy makers reprioritize how funds are allocated to fuel that engine. In upper-division courses, students analyze social justice issues within the context of the local economy. Budgets reflect priorities,” said Watson Spiva.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Conceived as institutions of access, intellectual emancipation, and social transformation, they promised to disrupt rigid academic hierarchies and democratise knowledge. Rooted in critical traditions, she explores how higher education can foster social justice, equity, and transformative change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

What she didnt realize right away was that she could fuse her passion for social justice and advocacy with the world of academia. I could be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a disgrace to the entire family. Bernadette Atuahene Soon enough she would figure it out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

Susan Corke, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, which tracks and exposes the activities of hate groups, and Michael Lieberman, senior policy council of the SPLC, argue that antisemitism functions as an entry point into hatred, becoming an engine of anti-Black racism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

This situation potentially could have been a teachable moment for the entire nation about Asian Americans and social justice, had it been handled properly. You'll see as the keynote speaker ends, Keon walks up and delivers his anti-Asian slur. Will he or won’t he rock the boat now?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

First, translational ethics requires sufficient engagement with both qualitative and quantitative forms of knowledge, contrary to assumptions typical within engineering fields over the epistemological superiority of ‘hard science’ over ‘soft’ knowledge (Raji, Scheuerman, and Amironesei 2021). Nov 25, 2024

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

As black celebrity has been shown to millions of people, millions of times, the story of real lives has also been lost, and with it the engine that thrust forward the demand for social justice by the masses.” Our channels from ESPN to VH1 are filled with presentations of black Americans being paid a king's ransom to entertain.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

The other four programs in the study are computer science, civil engineering, finance and nursing. Similarly, the University of Iowa recently consolidated its Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies into a new school featuring majors in social justice, African American studies and others, KCRG reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Herbert and his co-authors attributed this prominence to several factors including rising public support for organized labor, increased centrality of social justice issues in student-worker organizing, the pandemic’s impact on working conditions and public awareness of labor issues, and support from industrial unions.

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