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Get Comfortable Being Hated

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I recently went on a cruise to some destinations in the Caribbean and as is customary I entered my credit card information for additional expenses that may be incurred on the voyage. There were packages on the cruise that I knowingly purchased and anticipated being charged for. Halfway through the cruise, I glanced at the “account” section of the cruise line’s app and noticed that there was an amount that I wasn’t expecting that was being charged every day that was called “onboard gratuities”.

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The Impact of Practicing Gratitude on Mental Health

Active Minds

We take care of our physical body by going to see doctors, working out, and eating healthy, all without questioning why. However, we don’t pay half the attention when it comes to our mental health. Taking care of our minds should be the same. After all, it’s just as important for us to focus on our mental health as it is our physical health. This wasn’t always clear to me, especially when I was growing up. .

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Gratitude for Arts and Science Educators

Ed.gov Homeroom

This month, as we’re thinking about gratitude, I’m reflecting on the tremendous impact that educators have had on my life. I would not be where I am today without the many teachers, counselors, librarians, and mentors that have lifted me up, and, now as an educator and mentor myself, I hope to pass that encouragement. Continue Reading. The post Gratitude for Arts and Science Educators appeared first on ED.gov Blog.

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Managing stress after being diagnosed with a mental illness

Student Minds

Madeleine shares her thoughts and experiences of dealing with stress at university in the context of being diagnosed with bipolar. - Madeleine Chamberlain The theme for this month is stress, something I’m sure every student has had an experience with. Stress is something that is unavoidable in life, but it can be managed with the right tools and approaches.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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NC A&T Fined for Exceeding Enrollment Cap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

North Carolina A&T State University is being reprimanded for enrolling too many out-of-state first-year students in the last two years, WFMY reported. The UNC System Board of Governors had set N.C. A&T’s enrollment cap at 35%. However, in 2021, N.C. A&T had 41% of students, enrolled from out-of-state, according to the system. As a result, the school has been fined and must forfeit nearly $2 million of its budget, per the UNC System ’s Nov. 17 decision, with the system recommending t

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How flashpoint response impacts faculty well-being

EAB

Expert Insight. How flashpoint response impacts faculty well-being. Across the last few years, flashpoints have become commonplace at colleges and universities. In our current landscape—characterized by heightened emotional states , polarized political environments, and perceptions among some faculty that administration may not always have their best interest in mind—academic leaders are spending more time grappling with and addressing these incidents.

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Students, studying, and self-belief: don’t be your worst critic

Student Minds

When it comes to education, every decision feels like the most important one. Whilst an exciting time to explore your passions, it can also be a daunting one. In this blog, Lydia-Rose shares how student life influences mental health and discusses how you are never alone in wondering about whether your choices were the ‘right’ ones. - Lydia Everyone is normally their worst critic-I was mine.

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New Jersey Senate Sends K-12 Media Literacy Bill to Governor's Desk

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will be receiving a media literacy bill from the New Jersey Senate to sign, a bill that would make New Jersey the first state to mandate information literacy education for all K-12 students. Gov. Phil Murphy “This bill ensures that 1.3 million public school students in New Jersey will be better prepared for life beyond school with key skills that help them with lifelong learning, civic participation, and work skills,” said Olga Polites, New Jersey Chapter Leader of Me

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While Community Colleges Struggle, More Federal Subsidies Pour into For-Profits

Community College Review

What's happening to financial aid for students at community colleges? Students at for-profit colleges are now getting a bigger piece of the federal student aid pie.

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revising drafts – #AcWriMo

Patter by Pat Thomson

In the spirit of #AcWriMo here is another book that you might find interesting and helpful – this week it’s Verlyn Klinkinborg’s (2012) Several short sentences about writing. Klinkinborg writes a book-length prose poem about authoring. His goal is to unpick writing myths and orthodox wisdoms – he takes on writing blocks, genius and inspiration, topic sentences and the (non)usefulness of outlines (ouch).

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A Master Class in How NOT To Lead

Steve Keating

There are lots of ways NOT to lead. Most leaders discover them over a period of time. The best leaders actually learn from the mistakes of others and don’t make repeat them on their watch. But every now and then we see a “leader” make every possible leadership mistake all at once, or at least in a very short period of time. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Mr.

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Spelman College Partners with Spotify for Podcast Culture Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Spelman College is partnering with Spotify for NextGen, Spotify’s program to foster podcast culture and careers on campuses. The initiative – supported by the Spotify Creator Equity Fund – will involve creation of a d edicated on-campus podcast recording space; co-creation of student-led original content; consideration for a Spotify internship program; and potential academic scholarship support.

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Performing Arts at Community Colleges: Best Music and Theater Programs

Community College Review

Community colleges offer a wide variety of music and theatre programs. Whether you are building your career foundation or exploring the performing arts, consider all the available resources.

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What Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week? (Hint: Not Much)

Cal Newport

Several readers pointed me toward a recent NPR Marketplace segement about a fully-remote tech company called Zapier that tried an interesting experiment last summer: they cancelled all meetings for a week. “When I heard from leadership that we were going to experiment with a week with no Zoom meetings, all I felt was excited anticipation,” explained Ellie Huizenga, a content strategiest at Zapier. “Did that mean that you could just go into your Outlook or your Google Calendar o

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The Connections that Keep Students on Track

Scholarship America

For the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 threw the world of higher education into disarray, college enrollment is stabilizing. According to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse, “Undergraduate enrollment continued to shrink this fall but the decline has slowed to nearly pre-pandemic rates.” Community college enrollment was nearly steady year-over-year, and, despite the overall decline, some universities are even reporting record class sizes.

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Engage New Students Early Or Lose Them: Here’s How to Do It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jean Petty started her community college education right out of high school and had no idea how to “do college.” She walked into the first college she attended not knowing where to start, and no one was very helpful in getting her enrolled and on a pathway. She repeated this experience at three different community colleges over three years. It was not until she went to Orange Coast College in California when that changed.

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Should Graduating Seniors Consider a Gap Year?

Community College Review

The current state of the United States education system is up in the air as COVID-19 spreads across the nation. Graduating high school seniors may find it necessary to change their plans for the fall of 2020 and many are considering a gap year.

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Self-Differentiated Leadership

The Advisor That Cares

Effective leadership requires the leader to be self-aware and clear on their motivations. To effectively lead, one must “develop the characteristics of a self-differentiated leader so that you can have the stamina and resolve to keep moving forward in the face of resistance” (Dwayne Harapnuik, 2021). Becoming a self-differentiated leader demands one to remain in touch with their driving purpose and the proposed change.

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How to promote healing with physical trauma-informed practices

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Thoughts, feelings, and emotions are what make us human, especially as we interact with others and build a collection of individual experiences. Those experiences then impact how we respond to future events. . More likely than not, you or someone you know has experienced trauma in one form or another and it has significantly altered how they see the world.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%. According to the report, first-time enrollment in this context refers to the number of students enrolled for the first time in graduate certificate, education specialist, master’s, or doc

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3 Ways to Leverage Career Centers During Recruiting Season 2022

Symplicity

It’s never a bad idea for recruiters to venture out of their comfort zones and find new ways to engage with early talent. With the tail end of the recruiting season just around the corner, recruiters are pouring over resumes, searching databases, and sourcing candidates as quickly as possible to fill available spots for summer internships and entry-level openings.

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Sickness at School: Strategies for Staying Healthy in College

MichiganTech MTU Center for Student Mental Health

Being sick in college can seriously challenge your ability to perform your best. No one wants to sit through class, take an exam, or show up to meetings and be expected to pay attention when their health is struggling. Read on to see a list of resources and health facts to help you navigate taking care of yourself. Hand Washing. Hand washing is an integral part of sickness prevention and can help to prevent the spread of diarrheal and respiratory infections.

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Careers: Hospitality Industry

Community College Review

Today's community college culinary and hospitality programs come with impressive training restaurants and hotels. Learn more about these five-star worthy training facilities and programs.

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Tuskegee and Auburn Universities Work to Address Racial and Health Disparities in Alabama

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tuskegee and Auburn Universities have agreed to collaborate on partnership expansion between the schools and community outreach. Auburn President Dr. Christopher B. Roberts and Tuskegee President Dr. Charlotte P. Morris The two schools announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), this one being a commitment to share resources to address racial and health disparities – such as lack of health care access – in Alabama communities.

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GO-GN Fellowship reflections

Catherine Cronin

Cover image of GO-GN Fellowship Reflections Report (CC BY 4.0 GO-GN). On 21 November 2022, the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) launched a report reflecting on the GO-GN Fellowship scheme. Between 2020 and 2022, nine GO-GN Fellows undertook OER/OEP-related postdoctoral research projects in Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Australia.

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Words Hurt and Heal: 6 ways to Heal someone Hurt

Black Students Mental Health Blog

Words once said, retrieving them is like trying to get eggs out of a baked cake. Forget the weapons alone, we also kill with our mouths. Just a word is enough to make someone commit suicide. “I didn’t mean any harm ” ohh we’ve heard that before! What’s the problems with words? The real issue is someone might interpret you differently, so what really demands more caution is that we chose our what we say carefully.

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Earn a Degree in Leisure at Community College

Community College Review

Indeed, "leisure" is a community college major that could translate into lucrative and enjoyable career opportunities after graduation! Learn about leisure and recreation majors and innovative programs at community colleges around the country.

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Scott Vignos Appointed VP and CDO at Oregon State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Scott Vignos will become Oregon State University’s vice president and chief diversity officer, effective immediately. Scott Vignos Since September 2021, Vignos has been interim vice president and chief diversity officer, and this appointment solidifies his role there. Other roles he has served in include assistant vice president for strategic diversity initiatives in the Office of Institutional Diversity; director of strategic diversity initiatives; and special assistant in Oregon State’s former

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Changes to our COVID testing operations

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Note: This letter originally appeared as an e-mail sent to the Hopkins community on November 21, 2022. Dear Johns Hopkins Community, As we reach the end of the semester, we would like to inform you of some upcoming changes to our COVID operations. Based on current trends, we expect that COVID will continue to be a part of our lives. However, our defenses against the coronavirus have gotten stronger, thanks to a growing majority of the U.S. population now having some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the v

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Navigating the Recovery

EAB

Read EAB's white paper to learn about three pandemic ripple effects you should expect and four recommendations for how student success leaders should prepare. Thanks for your interest! To access this content, please log in or register for a free guest account. Log In. Register. The post Navigating the Recovery appeared first on EAB.

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Washington Monthly Rates Community Colleges in 2013 Ranking

Community College Review

We take a look at the latest annual college rankings from Washington Monthly, which provide a list of the top community colleges in the country as well as four-year schools.

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Zebadiah Hall Appointed First Full-Time VP for DEI at University of Wyoming

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Zebadiah Hall will become the University of Wyoming’s (UW) first full-time vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), effective Dec. 22. In this role, Hall will serve as a member of the president’s cabinet. Zebadiah Hall Hall is currently the director of Cornell University’s Student Disability Services (SDS). In the past, he has been chair of the Diversity Working Group for Cornell Health; co-chair of the Men of Color Colleague Network Group; member of the university’s Americans

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Upcoming Special NSLDS Postscreening for Unusual Enrollment History

College Aid Services

Posted: November 23, 2022 Author: Federal Student Aid Subject: NSLDS Professional Access – Upcoming Special NSLDS Postscreening for Unusual Enrollment History In addition to the NSLDS postscreening for the 2023–24 and 2022–23 award years that we complete each week, we will complete a special NSLDS postscreening this week. The special postscreening will ensure […].

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Being A First-Gen Gap Year Student

I'm First!

As a first generation student taking a gap year, the application process was difficult for me. I graduated in 2021, a year before most of my peers now. I essentially had little to no help, as neither of my parents had applied to any colleges themselves and I had no teachers or other school staff […].

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Wellness Opportunities at Community Colleges

Community College Review

Learn about the different opportunities for improving your health and wellness at community college.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. Vasquez Helig—who is currently the dean of the School of Education at the University of Kentucky—is slated to step into his new role in January.