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The increasing pressure on students after Covid-19

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This prompted our systematic review article , which examines topics of student engagement, belonging, alienation and resilience, and specifically identifies pressures on current HE students related to these domains. This directly influences student mental health and wellbeing and thus student engagement.

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4 Ways We’re Strengthening Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEI&B) in Course Materials

Today's Learner

Our commitment is strongly manifested in our learning materials across the subjects of Psychology , Sociology , History , Political Science and Anatomy and Physiology. We’re revising our language and our ideas “A different language is a different vision of life.”

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What could virtual reality mean for higher ed?

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In partnership with ASU faculty, Dreamscape Learn created an immersive, interactive environment called The Alien Zoo , in which students discover that a rare alien species is suffering from a new, undiagnosed ailment and must work to identify its origin and find a way to cure the suffering population.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Inside Higher Ed

In Walther’s words: “The culprit,” in poetry’s increasing marginalization, “is not bad pedagogy or formal experimentation but rather the very conditions of modern life, which have demystified and alienated us from the natural world.” Encode, in clauses, the new, nearly ineffable.

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Academic Twitter is worth fighting for (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Now, when I go to conferences, I get to meet with people in real life who I feel have been my close friends for a long time due to Twitter. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. a is an assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University. These weren’t just weak ties.

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White nationalist enters historians' debate on presentism

Inside Higher Ed

And in so doing, Sweet said, these historians stand to make history indistinguishable from other social sciences. ” 'All History is Presentism' Sweet’s essay does say that “history suffuses everyday life as presentism.” also in the name of unity. These interpretations are two sides of the same coin.”

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

” We ignore students’ disaffection, alienation, disengagement, and pent-up frustration and anger at our peril. In the past, working for higher education, while not as exciting as joining a tech giant or start-up, was an attractive job, with security, impressive benefits, and reasonable work-life balance.