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Instructional Violence Must End: Keeping the Legacy of A. Wade Boykin Alive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ford and hearts as they seek to provide Black students with rigorous and relevant instructional styles and strategies. I consider Dr. Boykin the father of multicultural instruction culturally responsive teaching styles and strategies. I want to inform and/or remind readers that Dr. James A.

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Community College Faculty-Led Teaching and Learning Hubs Improve Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jaeger and Colclough began a case study that has blossomed into a full program, run by and for faculty, that’s creating peer communities, meeting regional needs, and moving the needle on student retention, persistence, and graduation rates: The North Carolina Teaching and Learning Hubs. We’re faculty led, driven, and focused.

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. Historically, those hired to teach at the university level complete the required studies in a given discipline. Moreover, our group was not alone in our thinking.

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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. The concept is quite simple.

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Trust and Transparency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. Jordan says people are pleased with Randall’s candor and the transparency in communication.

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An Unexpected Key to Performance in Gateway Math Courses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Roberto Rubalcaba, an associate professor at San Diego City College who teaches gateway math courses, was unsurprised by the findings. He tries to avoid this in his own teaching. “I I’ve heard professors bragging, ‘Oh, I only had five students pass this class,’” said Rubalcaba. That doesn’t work.”

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Survey: Majority of Employers Express Confidence in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Based on their responses, employers seemed to value higher ed’s capacity to teach students how to think independently and apply ideas hands-on more than anything else, with 59% and 56% of employers, respectively, saying that those characteristics, in a well-rounded education, help ‘a great deal’ for workforce success.

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