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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access. Smith, an associate professor of higher education at University of Cincinnati, said basic needs such as food, housing, and mental health care are critical challenges that community colleges are trying to recognize and address.

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

Along the way, we are introducing and foregrounding neurodivergent approaches to knowledge, creative research and writing with play, lived experience and more, thus challenging the dominant, normative habits demanded by the academic publishing industrial complex that emphasise the linear, causal, and ‘neutral’.

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Ten campus living-learning communities to model

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Some are more ideological, touching on interfaith, sustainability, conflict resolution, leadership or social justice. While there’s no major requirement for FETCH LLC, one aim is to help students learn more about the service animal industry.

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Lessons in Gratitude

Teaching Matters Academic Support

It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods. Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need.

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Student Spotlight: Paige’s Semester Abroad in Dublin, Ireland

AIFS Abroad

Conversations with industry professionals provided invaluable insights and sparked a passion for international law. Learning about Ireland’s journey to independence, its legal system, and its ongoing efforts towards social justice has inspired me to advocate for positive change through my legal career.

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How the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

King’s work was about diversity: Dr. Marcus Bright King’s actions reflected an understanding that embracing diversity was essential to advancing his civil rights and social justice mission. s lifetime, I contend that King's life and work were, in large part, about the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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A compassionate approach to eco-anxiety

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Whether we are scientists, teachers, researchers or students watching the alarming trends or reading, as I did earlier this week, just how bad our food systems are for birdlife, biodiversity and the planet ( Rigal et al.,