Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With this as a backdrop, the Education Writers Association gathered a panel of experts to discuss social mobility as part of its annual Higher Education Seminar, hosted at the University of California, Riverside. In recent years, the U.S. Suddenly, social mobility is getting the attention that it has long deserved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity. There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The entire college is being designed specifically with the Black student in mind.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. The students’ next assignment was to research—and debunk—the U.S. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Regional data collected by the To&Through Project, which researches educational outcomes in Chicago, predicts that only 30% of current CPS freshman will complete a college credential in ten years. This year, helping her high school seniors through the newly simplified FAFSA application process has been more stressful than simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. in rhetoric and intercultural communication, she earned a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1).

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 22, 2024

Teaching high school senior seminars and observing outcomes has been one of the highlights of my career as an educator. The benefits of high school senior seminars are out of this world. There are so many different ideas for senior project elements or senior seminar components from projects to papers to internships and more.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

“There are significant resources in AI education, workforce development and research and innovation across the state, but those resources do not talk to each other,” says Vahid Behzadan, co-founder of CAIA and assistant professor of computer science and data science at the University of New Haven.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Source: Author A post-seminar hands-on session introduces students to the Japanese concept of ( ma , the space between), which conveys a nuanced sense of space, timing, and rhythm that goes beyond a simple definition. The seminars are informative yet hands-on; the physicality of some exercises makes the concepts unforgettable.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 2, 2023

That institution’s first- and second-year seminars ensure that all the campus’s undergraduates acquire fluency in masterworks of art, literature, music, political and moral philosophy, and theology and the frontiers of the biological, brain and natural sciences. In most cases, that imagined past turns out to be bogus.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? Provosts, too.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

Cathy is indebted to her colleagues and co-researchers, who all contributed an enormous amount: Cathy Holden and Camilla Green ( ELE ), and Joan Cutting, Seongsook Choi and Alice Shan ( MHSES ). Cathy is an EAP lecturer at English Learning Education in the Centre for Open Learning, The University of Edinburgh. References Green, C.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 27, 2025

Jean-Pierre Egger revealed the method while respecting its intellectual property during seminars and university lectures in 2012. Gradually, Duchteau resorted to insinuating that the method might not solely be my creation, a claim he knew was false. My method has never been modified by anyone. The misrepresentation has not gone unnoticed.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

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.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Whilst this comment seems to lean more towards other types of academic teaching ( eg module leadership, lecture delivery or seminar facilitation), it can also translate to availability of staff more broadly. One key aspect of educational delivery which has remained to varying extents across the sector is the move to online student meetings.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

“There are always ways in which we are using other disciplines to further explore our work and research and our interests.” What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 1, 2022

My focus has been on Postgraduate Research (PGR) students to investigate the landscape of community building and develop a sense of “what works”. Therefore, if they could feel part of a research community within their department/school/institute, then it’s easier for them to feel part of a research community overall.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Image: Explicitly teaching character in college? It’s not a new idea, but it’s not widespread. Have you or your campus experimented with character education? Tell us about it.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 30, 2022

Image Credit: Kier Mathison Photography In this post, Shian Holt attempts to answer the question: What do research students want from their academic student community? As many research students self-fund, or need to top-up their stipend, there is a constant pressure to be employed. Then, there is the financial aspect.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Students look at a bound manuscript volume during a seminar. Francesca Baseby Fran Baseby is CRC Services Manager, based at the Centre for Research Collections on the 6th floor of the Main Library. Barlow, 2017, p.27) 27) At the CRC, this approach to learning is delivered depending on the requirements of the course.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Professors will even welcome their senior-level seminar and research classes into their homes or coffee shops for class sessions. The academic work also lends itself to reflection as seniors have the opportunity to create culminating projects, pieces, and research that bring together their four years of study.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Thinking Creatively The English department at Montclair State University, a large research institution in New Jersey, has added new concentrations in creative writing and film—two fields that Greenberg said remain popular nationwide. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Is it encouraging interdisciplinary research and teaching around the dilemmas of climate change? Still, as a reader from the community college sector, I couldn’t help but notice that much of Alexander’s analysis implicitly assumes the residential research university as the model of higher education. Is your college coastal?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 24, 2016

I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an instructor’s perspective.]. I came to Princeton in 2002, and from 2002-2009 I taught seven writing seminars in the Princeton Writing Program. My writing seminars mostly focused on the work of John Rawls and responses to him.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We will organise the network’s work and events along three themes each year, chosen to reflect key issues in research and teaching currently. We invite our members, friends, and anyone interested to propose sessions, seminars, webinars, workshops, etc , for any of the three themes.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2023

Here’s what looks good on a college application It’s not what you do, but how well you do it Many folks think that there is some secret check list that one follows to get into selective colleges: community service, academic research, leadership, sports, the arts, an internship. What looks good on a college application?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

” She argues that major research universities need to combat their elitist, exclusionary, and ivory tower reputation. Their research should be evaluated not simply in terms of quantitative “impact factors,” but by its success in tackling global economic, health, and sustainability challenges. Why not just enjoy life?”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

WIMSE participants can also join the WIMSE Society, which offers the Research Experience Program and other service and research opportunities. Denison University—The Homestead Researchers looking for a hands-on approach to ecological sustainability find themselves at home on Denison’s Homestead.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 8, 2024

Image by Rodrigo Carvalho RCarvalho from Pixabay In this post, Professor Rachel Muers, from the School of Divinity, describes how a team of academic staff have trialed some new teaching approaches in a first year, first semester course: “Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar” based on reflection and formative feedback.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Student success within the library can mean having a quiet study space, finding materials for classwork or receiving research guidance. An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

So in this era of unprecedented research volume , breakthroughs should be increasingly common, right? The idea was to analyze citations and texts to understand whether research and patents “forge new directions” over time and across fields. million U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patents from 1976 to 2010.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Yet it’s unsurprising in light of research showing that students underestimate what they’ve absorbed via active learning. One in 20 students prefers the traditional, discussion-based seminar, though the share is 13 percent for arts and humanities students. 2 choice for class format. Minute papers.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Jacqueline Bichsel, the director of research at CUPA-HR, helped illuminate some of the key stressors causing high turnover today, first identified in CUPA-HR’s latest Higher Education Employee Retention Survey (ERS). One of W&M’s most popular seminars for supervisors is learning to flourish through “chronic too-muchness.”

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Omolabake Fakunle and Helen Higson We were very proud to have our paper accepted at SRHE’s 2023 Research Conference. Our collaboration to publication research story This recent piece of work started with a joint seminar at the 2019 SRHE Conference at Celtic Manor.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This, along with a student body that’s growing more and more diverse, should increase pressure on research universities in particular to take an equity-minded toward increasing access, retention and student success. Some of the proven strategies include: Undergraduate research opportunities. First-year college success seminars.

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