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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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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino. Teneo Linguistics Company, the Agape Clinic and Dallas Children’s Hospital.

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Cross-school collaboration: Supporting PGT students through the Dissertation Buddies Programme

Teaching Matters Academic Support

However, there is limited evidence of effective peer support approaches for PGT students, and PGT students have been described as the ‘overlooked cohort’ (Coneyworth, et al., The programme has been developed and enhanced each year and regularly has around 200 students participating. link] Huang, R.

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Higher ed needs more grit (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We’re on track to grow our student body from just under 35,000 to 40,000 over the next five years, and we have plans to build 5,000 additional student housing units in the same time frame, transforming what traditionally had been a commuter campus into a campus village. plus grade point averages and 34s on the ACT).

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A teamwork approach to longitudinal research in a premed program (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Prior to COVID, students attended weekly didactic sessions plus emergency department shifts shadowing physicians, screening patients for research projects and entering data. During the pandemic, students weren’t allowed in the hospital. Students with research experience have an advantage.

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Broadcasting research on the UNCOVER podcast

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image credit: cottonbro, Pexels, CC0 In this post, Nadege Atkins, member of the Usher Network for COVID-19 Evidence Reviews and project leader of its podcast initiative, discusses the production of UNCOVER’s first-ever podcast series, funded by the Student Partnership Agreement. goals and themes), choosing a podcast format (e.g.,

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Six reasons why HyFlex shouldn't become the norm (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Could HyFlex—which typically involves professors teaching students in person in the classroom while others join remotely—be the solution? I conducted research comparing student learning, barriers and perceptions in my HyFlex and online courses.