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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. These dynamic and engaging questions are being posed as part of “Is Astronaut Food the Future?”,

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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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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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BadgEd: Introducing digital badges

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I’m currently focusing on micro-credentials, digital badges and extra-curricular learning, but I’m always happy to chat linguistics, especially the linguistics of food” Tracey Madden Tracey is a Learning Technology Advisor with a particular interest in learning design and the nexus of learning technology and social justice.

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What is a crofter, and why our staff and students should know…

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Crofting has a proven track record of maintaining population and economic activity in remote and rural areas, it supports local food production while protecting the cultural heritage and the natural environment in the north and west of Scotland. It has also proved instrumental in preserving our Gaelic culture and language.

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Why Grenoble as a Customized Faculty-Led Location

AIFS Abroad

Improve your studentsemployability : Study abroad is an impressive part of any resume and their study abroad experience will give your students relevant life skills to speak to in job interviews. There is something to do every season of the year. .