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

Faculty Focus

Finally, it was found that it is best to accommodate students within their learning style preferences and capabilities (Hawk & Shah, 2007). Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students. Further, Dada et al.

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

Faculty Focus

Finally, it was found that it is best to accommodate students within their learning style preferences and capabilities (Hawk & Shah, 2007). Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students. Further, Dada et al.

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

She was no stranger to Gustavus; she served on the Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014 following the enrollment of her eldest son in 2003. Prior to her 18 years of executive leadership, Bergman had no career in academia. Bergman was the first woman to lead the private liberal arts college when she stepped in in 2014.

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Engaging in Outreach Efforts & Meaningful Community Building

ACRLog

With fierce competition for funding and more people assuming everything offered by a library can be found online, libraries are feeling the pressure to blow their own horn (Hallmark et al., Last year, I started as a Lecturer Librarian at CSU Northridge.

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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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Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: Reflections on the Assemblages Symposium

SRHE

Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space. 2007) Meeting the Universe Half-way. References Barad K. Bennett, J.

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The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

SRHE

I combined a meaningful personal, professional and researcher self to the research ( Van Maanen, 2007 ), as I became an integral part of the participants’ community. I worked with them, I copied their language, their slangy terms, their anecdotes and at times their offensive language, to help cement my place within the community.