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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But if top universities genuinely want to lead, a key roadblock remains: around the nation and the world, leading institutions are structurally unprepared for the fossil fuel industry’s assault on the interests and values of academia. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. Real disclosure is a start.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). Additionally, all of the course materials are available on the school Learning Management System (LMS) (Binnewies, 2019; Wang, 2019). Elshobokshy focuses on using learning technologies to increase student engagement and retention.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Inside Higher Ed

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon.

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The Vision and Strategies of Engineers Canada (EC)

Creatrix Campus

EC is Canada's national organization that represents the engineering profession. Engineers Canada (EC) is the national organization representing the engineering profession in Canada. According to Statistics Canada , in 2019, there were approximately 300,000 engineers in Canada, representing about 1% of the total workforce.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

For instance, in 2019, 6.2% In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Accommodations involve individual adjustments like assistive technology or alternate formats. of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4% Learning spaces I.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

For instance, in 2019, 6.2% In-person: There are two approaches to accessibility in academia—accommodations and universal design. Accommodations involve individual adjustments like assistive technology or alternate formats. of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4% Learning spaces I.

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Staying Relevant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Engineers generally want to make cool new technologies and oftentimes they don’t really go anywhere,” Rodriguez said. human-centered design of health technologies; and 3.) global health, Harvard T.