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Illinois State University to Launch Online Seminar Series to Teach Faculty on Creating Inclusive Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes.

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Overwhelmed by complaints on campus? What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar

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What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? Provosts, too.

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What if they’re all part-time students now?

Wonkhe

Why are increasing numbers of academic staff reporting lecture theatres and seminar rooms as empty of students these days? Jim Dickinson gets real. The post What if they’re all part-time students now? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover

Inside Higher Ed

You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover Elizabeth Redden Sat, 11/11/2023 - 09:07 AM Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar. Byline(s) Laura Skandera Trombley

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A Study-for-an-Exam Assignment

Faculty Focus

It starts with a first-year seminar program. A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. 272) An analysis of the reflection papers students (in five seminar sections) wrote after the exam revealed five themes. The first and “perhaps most important” (p.

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A New Way to Build Belonging: Freshman Research

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Kelly Field University of Maine Students in the University of Maine’s “Explore What You Eat” Research Learning Experience seminar learn about the production of pasta dishes as part of their hands-on exercises in food science. An unusual program for first-year students aims to support their success and keep them enrolled.

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Using data to catalyze and sustain cycles of continuous improvement in teacher preparation

Deans for Impact

April: We also pushed into other opportunities like grand seminars, which are all practicum-student professional development opportunities that take place five times a semester and operate like mini conferences for students. It was a huge benefit of non-judgmental, non-competitive support around ideas to improve our specific goals.