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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The evolution of how end-users obtain and utilize information spurred a new movement in education that LeiLani Cauthen described in her 2017 book, The Consumerization of Learning. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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UPitt Dean Works to Advance Equity in Policy, Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“To advance equitable policies that are grounded in education is to understand the full humanity of people,” she said. “It Dr. Valerie Kinloch Kinloch does the work in her leadership role as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of University of Pittsburgh’s (UPitt) School of Education, a position she has held since July 2017.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. from Duke University in 2017. “I How is that going to impact missions?”

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Waller does not come from an engineering background, but when he began studying for his master’s degree in counseling and human development, he found himself fascinated with engineering, which led him to Virginia Tech for his doctoral studies in curriculum instruction. That rose to 61.2%

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

The theory was a significant contribution in the field of human development, encouraging a move beyond blunt indicators like GDP and income levels to assess poverty (Nussbaum, 2011a ) and providing new ways of evaluating the quality of the lives of individuals and societies (Robeyns, 2017 ). Beetham, 2016 ).

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Stress is a natural part of the human condition, and can be performance enhancing at low to moderate levels. This response has had adaptive value over the course of human evolution, when stressors often involved reacting to immediate threats to our survival. Background. Stress, Mental Health and Learning. 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Just Knowledge: my GO-GN Fellowship project

Catherine Cronin

GTM’s vision is “full equality, social justice and human rights for members of the Traveller community, and meaningful participation of Travellers in social, economic, political and cultural life”. GO-GN Workshop 2017, Cape Town. iv) UNIVERSITY OF SANCTUARY, AT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE SHANNON (TUS), MIDLANDS MIDWEST.

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