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Nachman recommends that instructors gather input from students at the start of each semester in order to tailor teaching strategies to ensure a more inclusive learning environment. These measures can help everyone, not just neurodivergent students.

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MARCH 6, 2024

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.

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MARCH 19, 2024

A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses. “Our

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous two versions of the “Pickens Playbook” 7 College Readiness Moves to Make for Student Success and Year One at Tennessee State University (TSU) covered the journey of George Pickens during his last year at Miami Northwestern Senior High School and first year at Tennessee State University (TSU).

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MARCH 27, 2023

Rider University is partnering with the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in New Jersey for a program that helps school district support staff become teachers amid a national shortage. Such employees include instructional assistants, cafeteria aides, custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, and other support staff.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 3E Program aims to teach unfiltered American history by combining ethics, empathy, and empowerment, the three Es. All instruction will be virtual, live, and accessible across the country. Meeting the New York state standards for U.S. I want this program to be impactful, to change mindsets. I’m hoping for a positive change.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Teaching has always been a passion for Dr. Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. I knew I wanted to be in a space where both teaching was valued but also research was valued.” in chemistry from Prairie View A&M University.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Georgia State University has launched a teacher prep and retention program to help ensure students in metro Atlanta school districts receive stable, qualified classroom instruction. The college is expected to support the professional development of 270 educators over the three-year project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To earn the Seal of Excelencia a college or university must demonstrate an intentional, institutional focus on advancing Latino student success by aligning data and practice. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sophia Rahming is single-handedly helping to revolutionize peer-to-peer learning at Florida State University (FSU). It was originally conceived and developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and has since grown to more than 120 other colleges. The Learning Assistant (LA) model program is not new. The concept is quite simple.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The award — named after former American Association of State Colleges and Universities president, Dr. Mildred García — honors exemplar commitment to advancing access and success of the Latinx population in higher education. He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

With more than a decade of K-12 teaching experience, she has previously been vice president of academic affairs, dean of the School of Education, department chair, and professor at Indian River State College. Cronin holds a doctorate in education with an emphasis on curriculum and instruction from the University of Sarasota; an M.S.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

After a student complained, L ó pez Prater was told that she would not be teaching a course in the spring semester. Instruction cannot proceed in the atmosphere of fear that would be produced were a teacher to become subject to administrative sanction based upon the idiosyncratic reaction of one or more students.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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. and for the University of California system it is 79.5%.

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JULY 12, 2024

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. What better place than Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community colleges, as for their students, can be smart career choices for faculty who are most interested in teaching and student success. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Why would an institution boast that “46% of this year’s incoming class are students of color” and shun its process to ensure that faculty can attest to their capacity to teach them? No amount of disciplinary knowledge will nullify the adverse impact of not learning to teach it to others.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). We need to teach our students the places we’re likely to see bias in a particular discipline,” says Scott. “I I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The potential for colleges and universities to produce more STEM graduates directly influences long-term workforce development. Colleges and universities can play a major role in addressing challenges related to achievement in the preparatory pipeline by partnering with K-12 schools to enhance or build upon mathematics programming.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The majority of employers still view a college degree as being worth it, according to a national survey from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). It's such good news for colleges and universities in how they're preparing students for the workforce,” Finley said. Amid a U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. curriculum and instruction, and assessment). Dr. Donna Y.

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JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. The creation of this Ph.D.

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MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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MARCH 22, 2023

But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4 Participants will then return to their home districts and instruct students in multiple languages, including Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, and Khmer, the predominant language of Cambodia.

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MAY 28, 2024

Reading Area Community College won in the category of Instructional Programs and Services, which honors programs or activities designed and successfully implemented to foster or support teaching and learning in the community college. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes. Dr. Ioana G.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

Instead of receiving tailored educational plans and specialized instruction, Black students with disabilities were often placed in segregated special education classes or even excluded from school altogether.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

When my (former) husband, a university dean, would accompany me to meetings, I still felt outnumbered and on the defense. We spend an hour with parent/family liaisons and community outreach coordinators who instruct us on the importance of reading at home to overcome vocabulary gaps or how to navigate systems at school. Imagine that.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. The needs of the community surrounding Alabama A&M University (AAMU) , an HBCU, were quite different. The first cohort gra duated in fall 2021.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In rural Louisiana, workforce needs look very different, said Dr. Nancee Sorenson, chancellor of Louisiana State University Eunice (LSUE). “We LSUE has also connected agriculture with technology through a free six-month program that teaches students how to use drone technology to supervise plant growth and wellness. “We

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JANUARY 25, 2024

According to the report, the most common post-baccalaureate microcredential programs at colleges and universities are in the fields of teaching, data science and analytics, interdisciplinary programs, management, psychology, and health care.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Thanks to a new change in America’s federal work-study program, thousands more students like Halima could soon become tutors in America’s public schools to aid in the national pandemic learning recovery — and potentially diversify our nation’s teaching workforce. Jilo Tisdale On May 10, 2023, US Department of Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S., leadership and policy studies, University of Memphis; and Ph.D., Everrett A. Miller describes Smith as a “natural teacher.”

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MAY 23, 2024

It’s involved protests and urging from all levels, from students to university leaders. Building the ranks One of the biggest hurdles hindering the creation of an AAPI studies major at Amherst had been not having enough faculty to teach courses. A barebones number of faculty on the topic wouldn’t cut it.

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