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Cornell Faculty Member Arrested for Comments at Coulter Talk

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Cornell University communication professor Monica Cornejo was arrested for disorderly conduct Tuesday during a campus seminar led by conservative media personality Ann Coulter, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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Sacramento State Creates Nation's First Black Honors College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. Recruiters are pushing the college as a selling point at high schools across California, and the university has started a social media campaign, hoping to become a magnet for interested students.

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President’s corner: Enrollment guru Mark Lombardi on the terrific power of social media

University Business

.” Here are some of the biggest shifts Lombardi has witnessed over his 40-year career in higher education: How social media has flipped communications teams on their head Yes, AI is higher ed’s new frontier and investors are pouring billions into preeminent edtech tools.

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How My Classroom Became a Laboratory for Countering Truth Decay

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. Today’s 24-hour news cycle, and the rise of artificial intelligence and social media, have increasingly blurred the line between fact and fiction. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role.

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Learning by doing

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

For a generation familiar with yokai through popular media, it seems yokai have become something of a buzzword. 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.

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How to Teach Effective and Comprehensive High School Senior Seminars

Experiential Learning Depot

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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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. She called the physicist she met at the summer school.

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