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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. What causes students to dread the social science statistics course?

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Inside Higher Ed

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. Last year’s survey report showed a slight, 0.7 percent decline in Ph.D.s

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Zimring’s 2019 volume, What Science Is and How It Really Works , offers a somewhat different defense of science.

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

Inside Higher Ed

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. Students and Scholars Push Back.

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