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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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From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement   

Faculty Focus

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool. She is also the founder of Neuroculture.

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From Likes to Learning: Enhancing Classroom Culture through Social Media Engagement   

Faculty Focus

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. Social media reflects the spectrum of human emotion and can be a powerful educational tool. She is also the founder of Neuroculture.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. 2 (Fall 2015): 96–103.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. 2 (Fall 2015): 96–103.

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Research co-creation may be the key to impact

SRHE

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate.