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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. These are the real impacts.” of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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500 days of desolation: Why ending the gender apartheid in the education of women and girls is the key to unlocking the future of Afghanistan

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Progress from 2001 and 2018 – the period between Taliban rule when female access to higher education increased 20 times – has been obliterated. academia show solidarity and keep a flame of hope alight for the talented Afghan women and girls who have had their education and future snatched from them? When would things change?

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. Williams, a Hampton graduate, served as an executive for a global technology company following his retirement from the Army in 2020. History-maker Dr. Ruth J.