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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

I’ve loved participating in the conference every year since 2015, and particularly enjoyed co-chairing with Laura Czerniewicz when the conference came to Galway in 2019. For me, the OER Conference is always special – both because of the warmth and openness of the community as well as the critical focus on open education research and practice.

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Student Success, Retention, and Employability – Getting Digital in a High Tech, High Touch Environment

Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

The idea being that technology would remove the human element and that it would be almost impossible to create technology-based systems that would elevate and enhance the human experience of higher education. Just think about all of the human-friendly technology-based services that make up the modern university.