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3 Questions for the Dean of the Mason Library at Keene State College

Inside Higher Ed

Q1: What are the big trends and challenges related to academic libraries that you think our broader higher ed community needs to understand? I think about my response to this in two ways. One represents the trends and challenges most of us in academic libraries are reading about. This is a great question. If not, ask why.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. When they get a quick fix on our website, they often come back to us and say, “It didn’t work.” Yes, but first, I want to know more about their experience of teaching, and what is motivating them to seek out a solution. This is the humdinger.

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UNESCO’s compelling case for investing in people, prioritising education

The PIE News

Thousands of government teachers and school leaders have been re-trained and are now supported to teach in a digital and scientific way across all the State’s public primary schools. Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu explains his government invested in EKOEXCEL in order “to change the learning outcomes from our schools.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

Afghan women, who’d been worried about their opportunities since the militant Sunni Muslim ruling power took over the country in August 2021, saw their dreams of attaining a postsecondary degree quashed—no matter how close they were to earning it. that can guarantee financial and academic support.

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Teachers as Transformers

Inside Higher Ed

Our essays came back marked up in red ink that pointed out our papers' flaws and fallacies without any regard for our feelings. When we met in the library or on the quad, they invariably asked what I had thought about a particular reading or idea, and listened attentively as I responded, and often punched back.

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Hundreds of WVU faculty oppose changes to evaluation, tenure

Inside Higher Ed

Of those 2,700, 715 participated, with 494 voting against passing a resolution generally supporting the policy changes, he said. ” The University Assembly’s rejecting the supportive resolution doesn’t require university officials to reverse course. The remaining 221 backed the resolution.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. When they get a quick fix on our website, they often come back to us and say, “It didn’t work.” Yes, but first, I want to know more about their experience of teaching, and what is motivating them to seek out a solution. This is the humdinger.