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

Experiential Learning Depot

Toy Donation Drive Students can gather new or gently used toys to bring holiday cheer to children in hospitals or family shelters, brightening their winter season. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St.

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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. The staff member assumes the medical student is the janitor. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In Teneo Linguistics Company, the Agape Clinic and Dallas Children’s Hospital.

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Course Spotlight: Bibliotherapy in London

AIFS Abroad

If we break the word down, we can understand that the concept is a combination of books and therapy — and it actually dates back to Ancient Greece when libraries were seen as sacred places of answers and healing. Last Updated on October 27, 2023 by Cat Rogliano Here’s a question we bet you never thought to ask: What is Bibliotherapy ?

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That’s roughly equal in size of state spending on health care and hospitals. Intensifying these problems is that the many alternate employment options—in law, journalism, publishing, libraries and archives and museums—are also shrinking. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2 percent year over year.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. They are likely to have to apply for a new campus parking permit or library card every semester.

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Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

CAPD

Additionally, she worked at Cleanlab, an MIT-founded startup, creating an open-source library to ensure the integrity of image datasets used in vision tasks. Chen was a teaching assistant in the MIT math and electrical engineering and computer science departments, and received a teaching excellence award.