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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Director Nizhoni Marks says what the support entails depends on a student’s needs. Additional financial support includes student employment opportunities, and COIN helps students navigate that process. Among the resources available is the COIN American Indian & Indigenous Scholarships list.

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Improve Student Employability: The Great Misalignment Report: Changing Higher Ed podcast 212 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guests Kathryn Campbell and Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

Actionable takeaways for university, college, and community college leaders to improve student employability. Insights about student employability from The Great Misalignment report; the mismatch between middle-skills credentials and labor market demand.

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment, AAUP makes clear that there is an ever-increasing reliance on contingent faculty. Also, the number of graduate student employees increased 44% from fall 2002 to fall 2021.

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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tinto’s publications, you will find additional theories on student stop-outs and drop-outs. He indicates that when there are no check-ins and engagement between an institution and its students, students leave, and some never return. Compare Dr. Tinto’s research to the recently termed “great resignation”.

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3 Minute Thesis: showcasing research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As researchers, it’s important to share our findings with the public. The 3MT provides a unique opportunity for PhD students to showcase their research through a short, captivating pitch for a lay audience. You’re able to explain your research to anyone at any time. Would they understand this terminology?

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research. General discussion ensued.