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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement. How did we get here?

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New Zealand: visa applications 25% off pre-Covid figures as recovery continues

The PIE News

One year previous in 2013/14, 2,662 had been rejected compared with the 14,917 approved. The country has sought to diversify its international student cohort, with “quality” being key in its international education strategy. I don’t think any of us thought it was going to be.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others). Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). His articles on a wide variety of subjects—18th-century British literature, C.S.

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Texas consortium of 44 colleges strikes deal with Elsevier

Inside Higher Ed

The consortium—known as the Texas Library Coalition for United Action—announced last month that it had reached a deal with Elsevier that is expected to improve access to scholarship, afford researchers greater control over their work and save the member institutions millions. Some laud the agreement as historic.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Collaborators will have to agree to publish digitally using Creative Commons licenses; use only the publishing platforms and resources provided by UVM Press; forgo processing charges, subscription fees, and membership requirements; engage in peer review; and maintain a rolling publication schedule for journal articles.

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Renaming of the Voices of Inclusion Award to the Nancy J. Evans Voices of Inclusion Award

ACPA

In 2006, Evans was awarded the ACPA Voices of Inclusion Award for her work on social justice in higher education. At Iowa State University, Evans was instrumental in the development of a Higher Education doctoral concentration in Social Justice and infusing a social justice perspective in the master’s program in Student Affairs.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement. How did we get here?