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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She also serves as project director of the Males for Alabama Education (MALE) initiative, a state-funded program scholarship and mentorship program for minority men walking the teacher education pathway. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said.

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

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Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest. The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

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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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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

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They also participate in workshops and seminars on emotional intelligence, professional development, communication skills, and scientific writing. Awardees receive an honorarium and are invited to present a seminar in the spring. Students design proposals and work with mentors to carry out their research.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S. “Scholarships to study at a U.S. “These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

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Input from the humanities is essential. First-year seminars emphasize academic skills development and more advanced classes help undergraduates stress professional identity formation. One might think that a call for men to dedicate their lives to something greater than themselves would be regarded as a rather prosaic platitude.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He made an introduction, which led to her giving a seminar at Bell Labs that turned into a colloquium, which was attended by all the scientists from the research area at Bell Labs. There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life.