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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Forging strategic partnerships Williams’s ability to connect HBCU students to graduate programs caught the attention of Emory University, where he would be recruited in 2014 as the director of Diversity, Community and Recruitment. it’s not quick.”

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VUU Webinar Discusses NSF Funding and STEM Research at HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Helena Mariella-Walrond, professor of education at Bethune-Cookman University – both principal investigators (PIs) at HBCUs – also spoke about their respective research and funding opportunities from the NSF. Whereas, if there's a connection – like data analytics or medical physics – then they get excited and they want to work with us.

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St. Joseph’s Cuts 4 Programs Acquired in Merger

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Graduate education Medical education Mergers Is this diversity newsletter?: Joseph’s recently announced another merger agreement , this one with the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, which will allow St. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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How do we do effective feedback?: A practical example

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: Patrick Perkins, unsplash, cc0 In this extra post, Jane Hislop and Tim Fawns from The University of Edinburgh’s Medical School continue conversation on effective feedback by spotlighting the success of their online MSc Clinical Education course.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Vedder recently retired from Miami University, which had approximately the same number of students as Stanford – but Stanford as 10 times as many employees, even excluding its medical school. “There’s a lot of graduate education and a lot of research, and that’s where a lot of the staff and administrators are.”

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

If literary scholarship isn’t progressive in a scientific or medical sense, then, he suggests, it might take alternate forms, for example, through alternate formats that extend beyond the book or scholarly essay or modes that speak to public audiences outside the academy. Addressing the ongoing crisis of graduate education.

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