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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a professor, she takes a social movements approach to education. When she ended her 15 years as director of BCRW in 2015, the college devoted a day-long colloquium to celebrate her contributions to feminist scholarship and research. Jakobsen stands with students and other faculty at a BCRW event.

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Q&A with chair of the National Endowment of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities , the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities. There is no one moment where you think, “Oh, that’s humanities!”

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Warning issued to Taiwan’s ministries over int’l student exploitation

The PIE News

The Control Yuan, which acts as a government ombudsman, issued a statement in June criticising the ministries of education, labour and foreign affairs for failing to protect international students from exploitation. According to the report, the students were promised scholarships to cover their university fees but these failed to materialise.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

Research offered by Monceaux (2015) also supports a simpler strategy by: 1) engaging students in active research, 2) scaffolding the student’s accurate review of articles for pertinent source material, and 3) integrating that material into the student’s work to hone research and analysis skills, bolster writer confidence, and avoid plagiarism.

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The current state of learning in HESA graduate preparation programs: Curricular developments from the last decade.

ACPA

One of these conversations with Brittany Stanton, Commission for Student Involvement (CSI) Chair, led to the idea for a brief piece on what current higher education/student affairs (HESA) graduate students are learning in graduate preparation programs and how this might differ from what was taught ten years ago.