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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Perceptions of research culture

HEPI

Individual anecdotes abound, too, around research, outputs, and even impact opportunities being disadvantaged because they were not deemed ‘REF-able’. In 2020, Wellcome published a report illuminating how researchers perceive research culture. The findings of Wellcome and TALENT’s reports are resonant.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2019; Monarrez & Washington, 2020). Black males are further disadvantaged and marginalized due to being labeled and stereotyped as intellectually inferior to their racial and gender counterparts. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. Fletcher Jr.

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

Faculty Focus

During the 2020 global pandemic, Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) were challenged with maintaining access to learning and student attendance. HBCUs are rich in diversity and often consist of more disadvantaged and underrepresented populations (NCES, 2020). National Center for Education Statistics (2020).

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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom

Faculty Focus

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Nguyen (2020) calls this cognitive state “a voluntary, sustained, goal-driven process” (par. As Tyng et al. References Ackerman, C. 2022, Nov 18).

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Helix Education

It is a human condition, as common as hoping for a bright sunny day in February. million additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. In the chart below, we see that while 4.2 percent per year).

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Whole-brain Teaching Strategies for the Diverse College Classroom

Faculty Focus

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Nguyen (2020) calls this cognitive state “a voluntary, sustained, goal-driven process” (par. As Tyng et al. References Ackerman, C. 2022, Nov 18).

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