Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

Thomas P. Clement and his wife, Wonsook Kim, bestowed an historic $2.5 million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. Thomas P. Clement and his wife, Wonsook Kim, bestowed an historic $2.5 million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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Steve Keating

AUGUST 11, 2024

I’ve worked with many people who wanted to be a boss. They would make comments such as, “When I’m the boss, they will have to do what I tell them to do.” They aspired to a position of leadership so they could force people to follow “orders.” I had a ready-made answer for those people. The answer was, “you may be able to get them to do something, but it’s highly unlikely you’ll get them to do it well.

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Compliance Communication Leadership Success 111

Patter by Pat Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2024

Imagine that you are an examiner. You are reading a doctoral thesis. And you’ve nearly got to the end. You’ve read a lot of carefully crafted words which have explained what the research is and why it is as it is. You’ve read the results and what these mean and how they fit with the current understandings in the field. Along the way the doctoral researcher has explained their choices and decisions to you and provided enough detail for you to follow what they did, when and why.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

About 80 scholars were recently celebrated as part of the inaugural Black Honors College class at California State University, Sacramento. The college provides its students of all races, cultures, and majors a comprehensive curriculum that focuses on the Black and African American experience. It enrolls students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher and demonstrate interest in Black history, life, and culture.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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