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Scholar-Practitioner Helps to Promote Inclusivity at Alma Mater

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university. She has demonstrated tireless professional service in complex administrative roles while maintaining an active research agenda.” Engaging directly with students has been a highlight of Patterson-Stephens’ work.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

To continue to mitigate stressors unduly impacting marginalized learners, it is critical that institutions continue to work to deeply embed universal and inclusive design for learning within the curriculum, co-curriculum, and professional service environment (Meyer & Rose, 2002). Increasing Representation.

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Mirror image: Reflection coaching for African students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The basics Each year, we recruit staff volunteers as coaches who are willing to help out scholars. Although we have some academics serving as coaches, most are professional services staff, covering a wide range of roles and seniorities. The professional services emphasis helps: the coaching relationship is not an academic one.

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An introduction to the Widening Participation strategy at The University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This months’ Widening Participation strategy-themed Teaching Matters’ posts will showcase the already rich variety of outreach and support strategies that academic and professional services staff in the University are undertaking. On 29 May, there will be an open Senate session where you can hear and discuss more on this topic.

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Why Faculty Diversity Matters

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I think Professor al-Gharbi also underestimates the potential to diversify STEM faculty by actively recruiting practicing professionals from diverse backgrounds. All of us have our price – and that price is probably lower than senior administrators think.

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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Teaching Matters Student Employment

To complement the internal view, we will also hear from employers who share their insights on the impact of Covid, and what this means for students in a changed – and changing – recruitment landscape.

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11 Effective Self-Directed Student Fundraiser Project Ideas

Experiential Learning Depot

The student fundraising team markets the event and cooks are recruited to enter the contest. Others hire professional services. We always charged for tickets to taste-test and vote. You could also charge cooks or bakers to submit their recipes to the competition. The winner of our cook-off received a percentage of our donations.