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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. This holds true for selective institutions.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.

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Watch Your Language

Inside Higher Ed

Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. A recent book by the poet Deborah Warren, entitled Strange to Say , certainly responds to the growing popular interest in etymology. Interest in language is also growing outside the academy.

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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

GlobalHigherEd

Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly reinterpreting fragile and easily forgotten knowledge. Examples of ICTs, “big data” and other emerging technologies leading to research breakthroughs in the natural and health sciences are well known.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said. Akbar said her courses get students from various majors at Fort Valley.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

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They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.