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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While Harrison said CSCC’s academic supports moved the needle on student success and completion, their progress plateaued until they began to build out non-academic supports, including the construction of a grocery store on campus and creating housing and transportation partnerships. And they are listening, Harrison said.

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Interdisciplinary Gamified Teaching of Critical Metals

The Scholarly Teacher

c) Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, United States. Key Statement: Introducing systems involved in sourcing critical metals needed for technology using bingo and mining flash cards can engage science, geography, and economics classes alike.

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Are these new rules the canary in the coal mine for distance learning?

University Business

The post Are these new rules the canary in the coal mine for distance learning? Without this flexibility, no doubt the critical worker shortage of the past several years would have been far worse. Unfortunately for students and institutions, that now appears to be exactly what it intends to do. appeared first on University Business.

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Six reasons why HyFlex shouldn't become the norm (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A friend of mine at a different university had to teach a HyFlex course with no classroom microphone or speaker, making it impossible for the remote students to hear their peers or for the instructor to hear remote students’ questions. Thus, increasing access for these groups should lessen those inequalities.

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The Global Sand Crisis: Examining Causes, Consequences, and Sustainable Alternatives

Clark Nesxen

A multitude of factors contribute to the global sand crisis, from over-reliance on concrete construction to illegal sand mining. Unfortunately, the demand is too large and domestic mining cannot keep up. The Hidden Effects As of writing this, there is no international governing body which regulates sand mining and consumption.

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Top Global Cities for Economics Internships

AIFS Abroad

Dublin As a global hub for financial services and business, and a major transportation and logistics center for the EU and beyond, Dublin is a superlative choice for any emerging professional in the field of economics. Want to lay the groundwork for a successful career in economics? Dublin, Ireland 1.

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MIT Scholars Attend International Conference

CAPD

Thus, salvationists remove historical events from history and transport them into a perspective of eternity.As Before graduate school, Diego spent years working at an international development project in Peru that assisted local governments in the management of mining revenues. My case study is Peru in the nineties.

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