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Update on the tent encampment in the Quad

UW Presidential Blog

Some of our largest events, including a night market, Engineering Discovery Days and a Meany performance for elementary and high school students from across the city and state, were joyously celebrated on campus. The encampment involves a small fraction of our 50,000 students and of our 700-acre campus.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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The Power of Narrative

Inside Higher Ed

Suny’s emphasis on the power of narrative is in line with a broader drift in scholarship that is exerting a powerful influence on anthropology, history, medicine, psychology and sociology. Instead of simply reducing a narrative to a story or a descriptive account of connected events, the sociologist Margaret R.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Stuart Rennie, AfaraEd & SJRennie Consulting

The PIE News

I have gone on to build two businesses that support the region with a third to support events in the region in the pipeline. One of the first students that I ever met at my first British Council event in Istanbul in Turkey. Best work trip? Most inspiring international student you’ve met/ helped/ taught?

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Inside Higher Ed

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. Or cultivate new reading strategies?

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

Faculty Focus

This process is cyclical in nature in that we experience an event, we interpret that event based on our past experiences and expectations, and we identify how that event met or did not meet our expectations.