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Health Professions Students Grade Their Institutions on Climate Change Awareness

Insight Into Diversity

Students sign up to lead teams to evaluate their schools across five categories: curriculum, interdisciplinary research in health and environment, community outreach and advocacy, support for student-led initiatives, and campus sustainability. The ironic thing is this is extremely harmful to the wider patient population.

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness. Canrinus, E.

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WEEKEND READING – From Compliance to Culture: Safeguarding in Higher Education

HEPI

Nearly one in three black and Asian students have experienced racial harassment on campus (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2019). Only one in three students who had experienced racial harassment during the 2018-19 academic year reported it to their university (Equality and Human Rights Commission 2019).

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts.

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Augmenting Your Classroom’s Reality

Faculty Focus

From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., This system allowed users to interact with a virtual environment projected on a display. Interactive learning environments , 1-15. López-Belmonte, J.,

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Recommendations to Increase Online Student Retention: A Delphi Study, By Dr. Danielle Kish

ACPA

Online dropout rates continue to be a severe problem for HEI leaders as low retention rates continue (Muljana & Tian, 2019; Radovan, 2019). and nontraditional online students have higher dropout rates in the first academic year than nontraditional students attending a ground-campus course/program (Ellis, 2019).

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Drawing in Two Hands: Communication Accommodation with Individuals from Different Cultural Backgrounds 

Faculty Focus

Even though the number of international students and employees within US organizations is increasing (Rivas, Burke, and Hale, 2019), intercultural differences, language barriers, and a desire to avoid conflict and/or offensive language continue to be common communication struggles for both American and international individuals (Rivas et al.,