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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SREB recently released its "The Skills Employers Demand: An Analysis of the Research" report to aid educators and policymakers as they work to integrate soft, employability skills into secondary and postsecondary education. The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Service-learning, public health, graduate education, community needs, student engagement, research, high-impact practices Introduction High-impact practices (HIPs) such as global learning, service-learning, research, and collaborative projects provide educational benefits by engaging students in a way that elevates their learning.

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Professor Examines Asian American Representation Across Media, Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oh joined Ramapo in 2013. I think perhaps … it’s taken a while for the second and the third generation to come of age and to join the entertainment industries in ways in which they can make a difference,” Oh said. Film Culture in 2022, and Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications in 2015.

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Time to Step Away from Twitter

Robert Kelchen

I joined Twitter back in February 2013, when I was in the final stages of completing my PhD at Wisconsin and looking for an academic job. I have made connections with wonderful people, started research collaborations, and disseminated my work to policymakers and journalists.

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

I continue to be an advocate for whole institution wellbeing, enhancing focus on academics in policies and practice, as well as increasing impactful research regarding academic mental health so it was pleasing to see university staff being given a spotlight. She is the editor of the Research into Higher Education Abstracts journal.

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The Metaverse explained for university leaders: opportunities and decisions ahead (4/4)

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

Universities may want to evaluate their research strategies and partnerships in the sciences and steer them toward industrial needs for developments in sensors, displays, battery life, network, and computer performance. Leveraging some research funding for the implications of use is an opportunity.

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5 Focus Areas for Campus Presidents Amidst Decreasing Trust

Campus Sonar

This has dramatically changed the landscape of higher ed funding —federal funds are typically granted to individual students and research projects, while states typically support the general operations of public institutions. adults, down from 70% in 2013, consider a college education to be very important.