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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. Students engage in every step from planning and promoting to collecting and delivering donations in this service-learning project ideas.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Though the bulk of the gift (about $13 million) was placed in an endowment so that accrued interest can be spent to generally support students, $2 million was assigned to pay for the development of pilot initiatives, says Dr. Sofia Oviedo, research programs director at Hostos. Stout, president and CEO of Achieving the Dream. “To

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to directing the AAP, Alexander is associate vice provost for student diversity. He describes his current work as “being a thought leader, resource person and a fundraiser, a person looking at innovative ways to implement some of our programs and activities that we provide for students at UCLA.”

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Goldman Sachs: HBCUs play central role in Black student excellence

University Business

Specifically, the upward social mobility rate for students moving from the bottom two income quintiles to the top two is 10% higher at HBCUs than in non-minority serving institutions. The rate of Black professors at HBCUs more adequately matches the student rate at HBCUs, where Black students comprise 72% of their respective population.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. ” Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills, Aurora University (Aurora, Ill.)

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APEX 7: Pushing the boundaries of Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this extra post, Colette Revadillo, David Geddes, and Anya Tan showcase APEX 7, an upcoming student-led medical research expedition to Bolivia that seeks to advance the field of high-altitude medicine. What makes APEX truly exceptional is its commitment to student leadership. But what if we could go beyond this?

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All4Paws: Vet students at work in the community

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

The students are supported by academic staff for the clinical work, but all other aspects of service provision, and all decision-making, are made by the student management group for All4Paws. The group also raises funds for an animal shelter in Portugal.