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Leveraging Social Cognition to Improve Student Learning

The Scholarly Teacher

Self-Efficacy Self-efficacy is the belief that we can successfully complete a desired task (Akhtar, 2008). Finally, note that making healthy food choices and exercising regularly helps maintain a positive affect. Two important areas that could serve as a starting point of such discussions are self-efficacy and self-regulation.

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2U-edX crash exposes the latest wave of edugrift

Higher Education Inquirer

2U began in 2008 as an online program manager (OPM), one of a few companies offering edtech services that required large amounts of capital and labor costs. Little did we know that the education business was already moving its way up the food chain and that edtech companies like 2U would be engaging in the latest form of edugrift.

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Higher ed and the military must collaborate (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In August, the Army had no choice but to issue guidance instructing soldiers and families to consider food stamps as a strategy to combat inflation. Meanwhile, Congress has set the annual salary for a new military enlistee at less than $26,000. All this comes when the pool of eligible volunteers is small and shrinking.

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Meet the team: Gina Baxter, Head of Student Services, Florence

AIFS Abroad

I studied abroad in Florence in 2008 and 2009. Tell us something about yourself: I like traveling, taking walks with my dogs, watching terrible reality TV shows on Netflix, and eating Italian food. I like being able to help them make the most of their time abroad by giving advice and recommendations on what to do/see and where to go.

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The State of Higher Education Part 1: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 159 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton talks with one of The State of Higher Education’s leading architects, VP of Impact and Planning Dr. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation, an independent private foundation that increased the number of states with attainment goals from one in 2008 to 48 today. When Lumina set that goal in 2008, the nation was at about 38%.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

First-year fellow Airele Muscetta, who is looking to do research in nutrition and food science, says the program offered her financial opportunity and the opportunity to “just get involved with research and getting used to the idea of higher education and academic success, of what my future looks like.”

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Review of Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind"

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A few years later, Kathleen Norris’s memoir Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life (2008) treated the malady with less deference to secular psychiatry, taking seriously the understanding of it as a spiritual condition. The quantity and variety of food must be limited, along with the amount of sleep.