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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. Aldmoor, A., & AlAmri, S. STEM Skills for Supporting Integration of Industry 4.0 Lambeth, J.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. Aldmoor, A., & AlAmri, S. STEM Skills for Supporting Integration of Industry 4.0 Lambeth, J.

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Why we must improve opportunity and accessibility for adult learners

University Business

between 2005 and 2021. Thanks to their practical experience in a similar or respective field to their chosen studies, they also offer innovation to academia. In 2021, 6.95% of Americans aged 25 to 29 were enrolled in college. For 30 to 34-year-olds, that number drops to 4.19%.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Faculty Focus

HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). The HyFlex format may be a new trend that surfaced because of COVID-19; however, academia understands the importance of continuing to provide access to learning through non-traditional methods.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

The university said in a statement late Tuesday that it "appreciates former director Patty Limerick’s significant scholarly contributions to academia and the American West. He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.