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How Higher Ed Can Fight Racism: Q&A with Terri Givens

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Leadership is critical for developing a climate that is supportive of black students and faculty. Make commitments to hire diverse faculty and staff, invite speakers to campus, and develop relationships with those at your university who are interested in supporting black students and faculty.

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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

Faculty can share their stories as well, giving students information they need about how the programs can help further their education. Organize a Faculty Development Workshop. Faculty development workshops are for professors who are interested in learning more about organizing and leading their own study abroad programs.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Bevlee Watford Taylor Cupp Established in 1992 by Dr. Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role.

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12 Steps to Encourage & Support Student Entrepreneurship

Study Aborad Association

He established an entrepreneurial program that supports students throughout the entire lifecycle of a company; from the origination and identification of an idea all the way up to the development of the product, intellectual property protection, and commercialisation of the product and financing. Get Funding. Incorporate Study Abroad.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2009, Newsweek featured him in a cover story that explored the idea of a three-year bachelor’s degree. Others, like Merrimack College and BYU Idaho, have developed ready-to-launch proposals that they hope their respective accreditors will approve. For Zemsky, the idea has been in motion for well over a decade.