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How college students feel about active learning environments

Inside Higher Ed

Image: While hundreds of peer-reviewed studies have concluded that students taught in an active learning environment are significantly more likely to outperform peers who are in classes taught more traditionally, full adoption of active learning practices remains far from the norm. That can mean changing faculty perceptions, too.

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Dr. Donovan Livingston Returns Home, Merging His Hip Hop Self with His College Advisor Self

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said.

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Survey: How college students say they learn best

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Many college students see teaching style as a barrier to their success , but which class formats and active learning methods do they prefer? But arts and humanities students (n=129) are significantly less likely than their peers in the social sciences (n=539) and natural sciences (n=630) to choose interactive lectures (22 percent).

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. I think it is easy for lawmakers, the media, and even large sectors of higher education to dismiss small colleges. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close? The news has not been good.

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CSUN Receives Grant to Boost STEM, Arts Diversity at LA Colleges

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. Led by S.K.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.