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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. We offer here ideas for what organizers of online events can learn from MYFest. ” More than 300 participants from five continents joined us.

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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My response included a statement that if offered the job, I would be willing to get into a dunk tank, sell tickets for student scholarships, and challenge my colleagues to join me in the activity. Human resources is responsible for engaging with employees to establish community and employee satisfaction.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The event will take place Sept. By offering a glimpse into Mumia Abu-Jamal’s papers , and by engaging scholars across the country in conversation, we hope to catalyze more scholarship and conversation about a topic that affects so many lives.” 27-29 and will feature a variety of prominent activists and scholars including Dr. Angela Y.

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. The college offered students an event attendance incentive: a chance to win a $500 scholarship.

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Are You Successfully Using Your Guest Speakers?

Faculty Focus

Follow – up : Provide the guest speaker’s contact information (with approval), LinkedIn profile, and any other materials prior to the event and post them in your classroom platform. Review any required assessments associated with the experience before the event. Can you marketing the event?