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12 questions to advance your online ed strategy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

From 2012 to 2019, pre-pandemic, the percentage of students enrolled in at least one distance education course increased from 25.5 Evaluate Organizational Strengths and Gaps Is our current online education support organization distributed, unified centrally within a particular division or generally underrepresented? million to 3.4

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Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

EAB

In 2019, EAB put together a “Building trauma-sensitive schools” handout that includes information from the U.S. The active shooter on campus in the spring of 2019 not only took lives but disrupted the community (and even our beautiful scale-up active learning classroom). It is no longer just personal, family, and generational trauma.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine has two newly created student organizations. The program is expected to launch in spring 2023.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset, the college uses multiple enrollment strategies, campaigns, and partnerships with community organizations to facilitate Latino students and families receiving the information and support needed to enroll. Some are focusing on faculty development, digital technology, basic needs, other areas beyond what we’ve asked in the past.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

I’ve been doing faculty development around teaching for almost two decades, and most faculty benefit from having someone help them think through their teaching choices, particularly as they’re adopting new pedagogy. ” Bruff continued, “Part of this is matching [and] making the most of it.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

As we re-evaluated our teaching, we sought new ways to teach culture, and above all, ways to develop our students’ ability to make cultural connections, a skill that is part of the learning goals of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).