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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Gerogiorgis, Personal Chair of Process Systems Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, explores the dynamic integration of active learning seminars in engineering education. How can we embark upon Active Learning Seminars without some basic study? Credit: Pixabay In this insightful post, Prof. Dimitrios I.

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Clark Atlanta, Harvard to Support Up-and-Coming HBCU Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Harvard University is partnering with Clark Atlanta University to help cultivate and empower the next generation of leaders at historically Black colleges and universities through its Harvard Seminar for New Presidents. The immersion includes the in-person Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, comprising ELI Presidential Fellows.

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Advancing Women in Economics is a Moral Imperative: Why Aren’t We Talking About it?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This unfair treatment of women relative to men pervades all aspects of the profession, from seminar rooms where women are patronized and disproportionately peppered with hostile questions after presenting, to editorial offices where women have a more difficult time publishing and being recognized for their expertise.

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University of San Diego Recruiting Students for Restorative Justice Master's Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program – one of four such programs in the nation and the first in California – will span 17 months, with seven online classes, two one-week classes on campus, and one travel seminar. The first cohort will start next fall.

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Williams College Faculty Approve Creation of Asian American Studies Concentration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The five-course concentration will require one 100- or 200-level introductory gateway course, a 400-level senior seminar with a capstone project, and three electives across at least two academic divisions. Even when we wrote that, there was this sense of reality that it probably might reach its 35th year.

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Texas A&M University-San Antonio Receives Grant to Address Economic Issues and Tech Access for Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The initiatives include a summer bridge program for students who have not passed the Texas Success Initiative and have not yet been deemed college-ready; a redesign of its First Year Seminar course to focus on career exploration and academic skills; an improvement to faculty professional development opportunities; and a loan program for laptops.

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You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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