Hope College Network

MARCH 3, 2025

FYS stands for First Year Seminar. The learning part is a class where these students meet to have difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion within a First Year Seminar structure. All freshmen at Hope take an FYS class in their first semesterbut what actually is FYS? The content of instruction varies per course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page was a United Negro College Fund/Mellon International Faculty Seminar Fellow and is a certified Supplemental Instruction Supervisor. Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover Elizabeth Redden Sat, 11/11/2023 - 09:07 AM Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar. Byline(s) Laura Skandera Trombley

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world. “Our

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Career planning is introduced during the first year seminar at LaGuardia. Unfortunately, a lot of institutions are not providing this information to students, Mabel added, who further noted high school is when to start informing students. “We Perez said the recommendations in the report align with what the college is currently doing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. Unlike Honors Colleges at some other institutions that have created specialized programs to attract Black students, Sacramento State’s model is radically different. Thousands of Black students will now see their dreams become a reality."

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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 first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Del Pilar said more institutions need to prioritize pushing back their acceptance dates, delay their own planning for classes, and seminars while students and families do not have the information and time, they need to make a critical decision about where to attend college. Iné Collins, school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey.

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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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Hope College Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One of the classes I’m in this semester that I’ve found I love is my Senior Seminar. The combination of making Sabbath a reality and the technological ideas I’m talking about in my Senior Seminar is such a unique perspective of a topic I never thought I’d care so much about. So far, so good. Until next time!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

He made an introduction, which led to her giving a seminar at Bell Labs that turned into a colloquium, which was attended by all the scientists from the research area at Bell 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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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

First-Year Seminar Course My friends from my Seminar class out at dinner on a field trip to Dearborn, MI Every first-year at Hope is required to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) class. Orientation often receives a bad reputation because it is a stressful and busy time. Nevertheless, it was a fun and exciting time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The current cohorts do take specific seminars, but Byrne wants experiential learning added. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The program will cut the seminars that were part of the fifth year, designed to help students reflect on their student teaching experiences. “I The year of student teaching will now occur in the fourth and final year of the program. Although the total classroom hours will decrease, they will remain far above the state minimum.

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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

The phenomenon of international students’ reticence in seminars has been well documented, along with the explanations students themselves have offered for this (e.g. Green, 2016; Morita, 2004 ; Phan Le Ha and Binghui Li, 2014 ; Tatar, 2005 ; Yates and Nguyen, 2012 ). It would be really interesting to replicate this project in other schools.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

.” CAIA is the result of a state taskforce spearheaded by Gov. Ned Lamont last year to identify many of the challenges imposed by AI. “The dividends the alliance will pay to its members is more valuable than potential conflicts of interest”such as competing for student enrollment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. In the future, Adelphi officials plan to expand some of its interdisciplinary learning into first-year seminars, capturing students earlier in their undergraduate careers.

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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 Academic Support

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Drawing from her rich experience in socially interactive educational methodologies, Dr. Smith discusses the pivotal role of active learning seminars in the SLICC (Student-Led Individually Created Course) in Critical Care, particularly tailored for healthcare professionals.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To ease the transition to college, Montclair State University in New Jersey created a two-credit course, the Adult Academic Success Seminar , that eases the transition to college and satisfies a general education requirement. Many students stop out because of money but its hardly the full picture. This is where the work really begins.

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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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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 20, 2024

English English A02 (Critical Writing about Literature) is a first-year, multi-sectional writing course in the University of Toronto Scarborough’s English Department at. It has been popular since its inception in 2008, but students and instructors have consistently expressed concerns about burnout and heavy workload.

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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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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

Compact teaching timetables, where lectures and seminars are scheduled over two or three days rather than dotted throughout the week, are being introduced by a number of institutions. The move makes it easier for the growing number of undergraduates who have to take on part-time jobs to make ends meet.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

On the day We transformed our large seminar room into a colourful space suitable for our celebration, with bunting and our rolling slide / photo presentation, as well as large maps of the UK & Ireland and of the world accompanied with coloured pens and Post-Its for annotation. So, how did it go?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 24, 2022

Credit Image: www.nealesmith.com In this extra post, David Caulton discusses developing postgraduate law students’ ability to participate effectively in seminars through a short course run jointly by English Language Education (ELE) and the Edinburgh Law School. Law seminars present students with an additional, quite unique set of challenges.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Interdisciplinary seminars often don’t transfer cleanly because they don’t fit easily on a checklist. But that largely hasn’t happened, even with universities that pride themselves on interdisciplinary seminars. It’s a useful, and sometimes harrowing, reality check. Is your college coastal?

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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. Senior year is a bittersweet experience. Its an amalgamation of experiences and emotions. While trying to soak in the lasts of college, seniors also look ahead and apply for positions and schooling after college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

In multiple courses along the trajectory of the English associate degree program—including in a first-year seminar that introduces students to the institution and the major—students learn about different fields and professions in which they could use an English degree, such as event planning, book publishing and public relations.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 28, 2016

With the first semester ended, the First Year Seminar is finished as well. Since, I am part of the Phelps Scholars Program , my first year seminar was with Phelps Scholars. The first year seminar was only one of the things that we as Phelps Scholars did together. But in this quote by former Phelps Scholar describes it well.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Build a network Mostly relevant for those charged with organising multiple placements it is crucial to build up a network of contacts in the relevant ‘world’ in to which you are seeking to place students. Whilst engaging my own network, it was helpful to work with colleagues within and beyond my School. Patiently build relationships.

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