Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2024

Dr Shaun Harper Racial equity expert Dr. Shaun R. Harper will be a featured speaker during September’s Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation hosted by the North Carolina Central University School of Education's Higher Education Administration Graduate Program. Harper is a provost professor in the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education and the USC Marshall School of Business.

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Steve Keating

AUGUST 18, 2024

I’ve been very blessed to seldom find myself in a situation where I have to interact with a truly cruel person. You know the type. Those people who actually take pleasure in causing pain and anguish in someone else’s life. Whether it’s mental anguish, physical pain, or just wreaking havoc in someone’s life, they delight in seeing other people struggling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2024

Students may now have a living map for navigating college in the era of artificial intelligence, according to a new guide release by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Elon University. Dr. Connie Book Dr. C. Edward Watson, the vice president for digital innovation at AAC&U, described the first-edition guide as indispensable for students as they travel along their AI learning journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2024

Olusola Oyewole The Association of African Universities’ (AAU) African Research Innovation and Development (AfRID) network plans to set up a platform to serve as a database of all scholars in Africa and their research. AAU is investing $60,000 in an electronic research archive that will automatically capture research output by African universities published in international journals.

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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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