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Analyze This: Creating Student Value through Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

Values-driven teaching is all about starting with what matters and building out from there. To do it right, our teaching toolbox needs to include critical thinking. When we encounter new information, critical thinking helps us evaluate the value and relevance of that information. What am I asking them to do?

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Proving the possible: how an Ohio partnership is bringing tutoring to scale

Deans for Impact

The tutors were given training about the school context and how to support the diverse learning needs of students. Initially, some of the faculty at Crim had reservations about bringing a large number of tutors into the building.

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Analyze This: Creating Student Value through Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

Values-driven teaching is all about starting with what matters and building out from there. To do it right, our teaching toolbox needs to include critical thinking. When we encounter new information, critical thinking helps us evaluate the value and relevance of that information. What am I asking them to do?

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Sheree M. Ohen Appointed Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer for Amherst College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ohen “We are in a unique time in our country where values around diversity and democracy are being questioned,” Ohen said. “I She understands that inclusion and belonging are about more than numbers. They are about the lived experiences of our students, faculty and staff every day.

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Texas Senate Approves Community College Funding Bill

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brandon Creighton’s Senate version of HB 8 aims to give money to colleges based on the number of students who earn "credentials of value," complete at least 15 course hours and transfer to a four-year university, enroll in dual credit courses, or take courses that "apply toward academic or workforce program requirements."

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10 years of #WeAreInternational

The PIE News

Around the world and here in our own country, the debate around immigration was becoming polarised and international students were being caught up in it in uninformed ways. That our international university communities were places of education, shared perspectives, vastly different experiences of the world and unexpected friendships.

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Why UK universities should maintain Chinese collaborations, despite the headwinds

HEPI

Hence, while the US Administration and the UK Government still characterise China as a strategic competitor rather than a threat, the chilling in relations leads to questions about the future of Sino-British educational links. Hence, we should engage confidently when it is in our interests to do so.