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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Condoleezza Rice is a professor of political economy in the Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. Bush’s national security adviser from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.

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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). As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students. As a result, common measures and variances occurred with instrument validity and reliability. Likewise, Lambeth et al.

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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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). As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students. As a result, common measures and variances occurred with instrument validity and reliability. Likewise, Lambeth et al.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014).

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LGBTQ+ attacks mount as students, allies rally to defend rights

University Business

Initiatives to establish a center have been bubbling under the radar since at least 2005, according to student newspaper records —a two-decade uphill battle. Similarly, the Association of American Universities (AAU) found in 2020 that nearly a fifth of today’s undergraduates and graduates identify outside of the heterosexual spectrum.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

Ensuring a successful educational experience for our students is akin to the art of culinary development, where thoughtful preparation is fundamental. 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014).