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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These potential collaborations and partnerships offer PWIs an opportunity to account for the histories that led them to occupy their current lands and waters and take steps toward reconciliation and a future grounded in Tribal sovereignty and nationhood.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

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Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs. African Americans deserve better. Dr. Ivory A.

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Leaders weigh in on why the time to improve faculty affairs is now

University Business

Joanna Brooks, Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success at San Diego State University, believes higher education leaders must reexamine their institutional structures to ensure the focus of faculty affairs goes beyond equipping staff with the tools to “survive the system.”

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Reenactments : Students might create a reenactment of an event they took in their history course or any past event such as a political agreement.

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Veteran Healers

Insight Into Diversity

Erin Patel, PsyD This history has led to a variety of important specialties and clinical disciplines across medicine, says Erin Patel, PsyD, executive director of health professions education for the Office of Academic Affiliations at the VA. Together, the VA and AAMC advocate for advanced veteran care programs.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. The program is expected to launch in spring 2023. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.