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Are You a Good Hearer?

Steve Keating

Say what? If something about the title of this post doesn’t sound exactly right to you, it might be because you’ve never heard of being a good “hearer.” But you know what I mean because being a good hearer is the same as being a good listener. Or is it? Hearing and being a good listener are fundamentally different. Hearing Definition : Hearing is the physiological process of perceiving sound.

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Scholars Gather at ASHE Conference to Explore Future of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As higher education continues to shift and change, scholars who study the field convened in Minneapolis last week to share their scholarship and to strategize about best practices, particularly aimed at making colleges and universities more equitable and diverse. Sailesh Maharjan, a lecturer and mental health first aid trainer at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), wasn’t quite sure he would fit in at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)