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Report: Certain Degrees in Tennessee Schools Leave Students with More Debt than Earnings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This data allows us to objectively analyze programs and determine which ones provide opportunities to increase incomes and which ones will likely leave students with excessive debt and a salary that does not allow them to get out of it,” said Beacon Director of Policy and Research Ron Shultis.

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Shall we all pretend we didn't see it coming, again?: higher education, climate change, climate refugees, and climate denial by elites

Higher Education Inquirer

That's not to say that there aren't universities doing climate change research. But that research is outweighed by those who control higher education, trustees and endowment managers, and their financial interests. Can US higher education do much to reduce climate change, either as a leader or as a teacher? The answer so far is no.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al., The students work on real research questions, using current state-of-the-art models and real data, to solve specific applied problems and feed into wider publishable research project.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.

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Study Abroad Hidden Gems in Fall 2023 

AIFS Abroad

Students with an Intermediate and above level of Spanish can choose to take courses in Spanish from the Spanish and International Studies Program. This experience may include working within a gym setting, sporting team, clinic, or providing assistance to ongoing research within the fields of sport and exercise science.

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Study Abroad in College

Great College Advice

Thus, it is possible to work study abroad options into your overall four-year educational plan while in college so that you can explore subjects outside your major in another country. Once again, before you start researching huge menus of programs, think about how you want study abroad to fit into your overall educational plan.

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Student engagement in teaching and learning: Like eating your broccoli?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: Flickr, Muffet, CC0 In this post, a visiting Research Fellow from Australia, Dr Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, explores the question: is scaling-up of student-staff partnership initiatives necessarily a good approach?… Research shows that partnership initiatives are often small-scale.