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Discussing the 4 Pillars of Immersion: Information Literacy

ACRLog

For now, though, we invite you into conversation with our team as we reconnect with the four pillars of Immersion: information literacy, the educational role of librarians in higher education, leadership, and critical reflection. This first post in the series focuses on the pillar of information literacy.

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Focus on DEI in Higher Education: Highlighting Your Work for 50 Years

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT has also offered study abroad scholarships for underrepresented students, leadership awards, and convened a HEED Summit, which brought together experts from award-winning schools to identify solutions to higher education’s DEI challenges.

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Believing, Teaching, and Evolving Pedagogy Beyond the Pandemic: Lessons from Ted Lasso

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member in a graduate program in educational leadership, I underestimated how the pandemic would impact my teaching—and change the way I approached pedagogy and implemented learner-centered practices. Cresswell-Yeager is an assistant professor of higher education leadership at Gwynedd Mercy University.

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‘Don’t Buy Your Underwear in Town’

Inside Higher Ed

As a participant in higher education leadership programs, one receives formal and informal training for a position as a senior administrator or perhaps even president. Perhaps that was key to her success; she kept her love of teaching and joy of scholarship close. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!

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3 Ways to Adapt to the Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

Liaison International

Here are three things higher education leadership can do to build admissions resilience in the face of the recent SCOTUS decision. The Supreme Court ruling does not say schools must hide race and ethnicity from everyone, it says schools cannot have explicit policies to admit based on race; there is a clear distinction.

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The University of Arkansas appoints its first Black chancellor

University Business

Robinson has led several initiatives focused on student recruitment and success, such as a college preparation program for underrepresented student groups, restructuring the Division of Student Affairs and a $10 million scholarship for first-generation and low-income students.

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

” While many colleges and universities have long-established policies in place to determine how they name facilities, scholarships, programs and more, denaming policies are rarer, often springing up only after advocates start pushing for a building’s name to be changed. Ultimately, the president or board has the final say.

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