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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. higher education in the world.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

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The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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Dr. Karen Carey

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Karen Carey was appointed chancellor in November 2020 after serving as provost and dean of graduate studies since June 2016. Carey came to UAS from California State University Channel Islands in Ventura, California, where she served as dean of Arts & Sciences. She earned her Ph.D.

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Inside Higher Ed

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. By discipline, this concern is least prevalent among arts and humanities students (42 percent) and most common in the natural sciences (55 percent). This was the No.

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A Defense of the Senior Diversity Officer in Politically Charged Times

Insight Into Diversity

If the media is to be believed, the future of the senior diversity officer in higher education is bleak. Although UC has provided pathways to social mobility for countless Californians, those efforts took place over the past three decades in environments that were often hostile to equity and inclusion. But is it really?