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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies.

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CoDI Show: Is astronaut food the future?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Looking at food provisions in extreme environments, researchers and engineers have come up with some very interesting, but also controversial solutions, which are now making their way into mainstream food production. What priorities does nutrition research put first, and is “tastiness” one of them?

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Balancing books and bills: an exploration of the hidden world of student workers

SRHE

Not long ago, these requests would have been dismissed as feeble justifications and lack of planning but, in the face of the cost-of-living crisis, this rising phenomenon is a signal that students are struggling to make ends meet and that ad-hoc institutional responses have not yet addressed this challenge (Jones (2022), OfS (2023 )).

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Mini-series: What is a living lab?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. Students work over 11 weeks to research the problem and come up with solutions, liaising with the department to ensure the context has been fully understood.

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GeoScience Outreach: teaching science communication ‘beyond the programme’ and outside of the ‘Ivory Tower’

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This year on the course we have students participating from diverse programmes including ecology, geology, geography, psychology, archaeology and landscape architecture. However, our bugs are under threat as the green spaces which provide them with food and shelter are engulfed by growing cities.

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Admin, adventures and adversity: Geography students’ perceptions and experiences studying abroad

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Study abroad can be a transformative experience, offering students opportunities for academic growth, cultural understanding, and personal development. While many students treasure the memories of new places, friendships, food, and adventures, the experience is not without its challenges. Dec 10, 2024

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.