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Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Wins 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College leaders are working to raise their graduation rate to an ambitious 70% through multiple strategies, including ensuring every student develops a career-aligned success plan with appropriate support to complete their program. The college isn't resting on its laurels.

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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

Particularly during post-COVID 19 shutdowns with smaller class sizes, both partners recognized the critical need to support student development and saw intentionally structured learning assistantships in undergraduate mathematics courses as a productive path forward. 2023; Chickering & Reisser, 1993). References Chen, X.,

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. Despite the incremental increase in women entering STEM fields, there are far fewer female workers in computing and engineering than men.

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Report Finds Broad Base Skills Help Students Post-Graduation, But Inequity Remains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Focus on the skills you’re helping students develop both inside and outside the classroom and how to make those experiences equally accessible for all students.” Nichole Torpey-Saboe, director of research at Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights and one of the report’s researchers.

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Engineers in the making: The path of first year Engineering students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In this post, Dr Simone Dimartino shares his journey in redesigning the Engineering curriculum, starting in Year 1, which has been heavily influenced by the recent move to hybrid teaching. Simone is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. This post focuses on Engineering Principles 1. Wikipedia Commons.

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Innovations in Engineering Education and Practice: The Engineering New Zealand Perspective

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Innovations in Engineering Education and Practice: The Engineering New Zealand Perspective editor Mon, 05/15/2023 - 06:37 The field of engineering is constantly evolving, and staying up-to-date with the latest innovations is critical for success.

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Impacting the Environment - Dr. Majid Bagheri

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Civil Engineering (construction), Technical and Vocational University, Kermanshah, Iran; Msc., Civil and Environmental Engineering, K.N. The ability that environmental engineering provides to address problems totally captivated him. Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University Education: BSc.,