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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Also, graduates of such schools are not likely to receive offers for positions in academia. “If Over the past year, the Alfred P.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018).

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Inside Higher Ed

They operate at the confluence of technology, compliance, data and student success —constantly working to support and promote innovation. digital transfer conversation with the inception of SPEEDE (Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange) in the 1970s. We call them Implementers of Success.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018).

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. in Higher Education and a B.S. in Information Sciences & Technology from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A. Koricich earned a Ph.D.

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Training faculty to help students in mental distress

Inside Higher Ed

For some, pushing faculty to play a bigger role in combating student psychological distress is a big ask as long as the larger higher education system remains unchanged. “When faculty are doing their annual evaluations, nobody is going to ask me, ‘How many students have you supported with their mental health struggles?

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