Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Greetings from the seminar "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: National Security Secrecy and Australia's Liberal Democracy" from ANU. Emily Hitchman points out that technology has presented a challenge for national security in the past, with fax machines providing a way to breach security long before Wikileaks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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. The fact that it won’t, because it just got passed today, is proving my doubts wrong… It’s very happy and very surreal.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page was a United Negro College Fund/Mellon International Faculty Seminar Fellow and is a certified Supplemental Instruction Supervisor. Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours. The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts.

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CAPD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The MIT Energy and Climate Club (MITEC) is excited to announce our speaker lineup for the Fall 2023 MITEC Student Seminar Series! Seminars will start this Friday and happen weekly, from 12-1PM in 66-168, with lunch provided. We have a variety of speakers on topics ranging from climate policy to concrete structure optimization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Our wrap-around support includes monthly events, a first-year seminar, customized internship programs, and intentionally celebrating the first-gen identity. In addition to the success team, we provide first-generation programming for students and their families during orientation to ease the transition to college.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 22, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 19, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.

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Hope College Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One of the classes I’m in this semester that I’ve found I love is my Senior Seminar. The combination of making Sabbath a reality and the technological ideas I’m talking about in my Senior Seminar is such a unique perspective of a topic I never thought I’d care so much about. So far, so good. Until next time!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The end goal, he said, is to create a “system and network within institutions focused on creating the highest quality of access for Black students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Career planning is introduced during the first year seminar at LaGuardia. Stacia Edwards, deputy provost of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), a group of seven colleges that serve over 60,000 students with everything from GED preparation to certificates and associate degree programs.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Office of Graduate Fellowships offers a three-part seminar series on Zoom for graduate students interested in learning more about investing, in conjunction with Fidelity Investments: Five Money Musts; Tues., February 28, 12pm Principles of Investing & Managing a Portfolio; Wed., March 22, 12pm Tools for Investing; Online Demo ; Wed.,

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

First-Year Seminar Course My friends from my Seminar class out at dinner on a field trip to Dearborn, MI Every first-year at Hope is required to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) class. After having adjusted and established a routine, the workload becomes much more natural and manageable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With this as a backdrop, the Education Writers Association gathered a panel of experts to discuss social mobility as part of its annual Higher Education Seminar, hosted at the University of California, Riverside. Suddenly, social mobility is getting the attention that it has long deserved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Del Pilar said more institutions need to prioritize pushing back their acceptance dates, delay their own planning for classes, and seminars while students and families do not have the information and time, they need to make a critical decision about where to attend college.

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Roompact

APRIL 16, 2024

The question was from one of my students in our student leadership seminar, a course designed for incoming resident assistants, peer mentors, and orientation leaders. “Professor, what’s your favorite song on the album?”

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 12, 2023

I am actually sitting in the seminar room at ANU, where Roger is presenting. That is also going out on Zoom, but I am listing to the ACEN seminar

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? Provosts, too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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. The seminars are informative yet hands-on; the physicality of some exercises makes the concepts unforgettable.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

The phenomenon of international students’ reticence in seminars has been well documented, along with the explanations students themselves have offered for this (e.g. Green, 2016; Morita, 2004 ; Phan Le Ha and Binghui Li, 2014 ; Tatar, 2005 ; Yates and Nguyen, 2012 ). References Green, C. 2016) ‘Time to talk about talking? :

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 25, 2025

Greetings from "Indonesias industrial policy: downstreaming and EV supply chain" seminar at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Greetings from the AI, ML and Friends Seminar at the Australian National University in Canberra, where Dr. Zak Kingston from Rice University is speaking on "Scaling Multi-Modal Planning". That doesn't sound very exciting, but he is speaking from the USA, where he has been planning how to use a robot on the International Space Station.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

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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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 2, 2023

Last week I attended a seminar on weaponizing Chat GPT with defence & AI experts from around the Ruth Lewis, workshop facilitatorGreeting from the Australian Computer Society Canberra office, where I am taking part in an IEEE AI Ethics and Governance Workshop. Over the next few days we will be looking at ethics and technological development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The program will cut the seminars that were part of the fifth year, designed to help students reflect on their student teaching experiences. “I The year of student teaching will now occur in the fourth and final year of the program. Although the total classroom hours will decrease, they will remain far above the state minimum.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

In this extra post, Cathy Benson shares valuable insights on international students’ perceptions and feelings on classroom interactions within two contexts: pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses and their Masters programmes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. In the future, Adelphi officials plan to expand some of its interdisciplinary learning into first-year seminars, capturing students earlier in their undergraduate careers. Tell us about it.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 11, 2024

Normally I attend weekly AI, ML and Friends Seminars in the ANU School of Computing, but today I am in the social sciences building, with philosophers. Greetings from the Australian National University Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence and Catastrophic Risk. The colloquium is by the ANU Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab.

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Higher Education Whisperer

AUGUST 29, 2024

Greetings from the University of Adelaide where I am attending the Sustainability spotlight series (seminar 1) on VitiVolatics, with Professors Cassandra Collins, Armando Corsi and their students. Professor Collins defined VitiVolatics as being about optimising solar power generation and wine quality.

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