Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. On the Other Side of Heaven – 1957 , a fiction piece, received recognition and praise and was later reprinted in the journal Reverie: Midwest African American Literature , in 2011. She just didn’t tell anyone about it. Dr. DaMaris B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

“[Du Bois] wrote for the public, gave public lectures, wrote creative works, and wrote fiction,” she says. "He McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019. It features a collection of essays on topics ranging from Black womanhood to McMillan Cottom’s own experiences in the academy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” If nothing else, higher education must teach people how to know s**t from Shinola, fact from fiction, and truth from lore. Should first-year seminars focus on the issue of fact versus fiction through a series of exploration and readings? ” And now, I ask my higher ed colleagues, “What are we doing?

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 2, 2023

About ten years ago I picked up a book called "Half the Sky". This quote, and this book, really struck me. ​ One of my coworkers was particularly inspired by their projects and suggested that we start a school-wide book club on women's issues. My students design and lead PBL around books that they choose to read.

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AIFS Abroad

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If we break the word down, we can understand that the concept is a combination of books and therapy — and it actually dates back to Ancient Greece when libraries were seen as sacred places of answers and healing. We’ll check out bits from fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, and essays from different time periods.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I just finished reading Paul LeBlanc’s book Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. To be clear, this post is neither a book review nor a comprehensive exploration of Competency-Based Education (CBE), although it contains some elements of both. How to read this book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the case of fellow and fiction writer Manuel Muñoz , the award reaffirms the value of his work. “I I was eleven years between books and, at my lowest creative point, seriously thought about not writing much anymore." I am still grappling with the enormity and significance of this recognition,” Muñoz said in an email. “I

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

The pleasures of reading and books have been swapped for phonics and grammar. Teaching used to be a popular career choice for literature graduates, as Carole Atherton warmly describes in her new book, Reading Lessons.

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AIFS Abroad

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, when I look forward to the upcoming holiday season, one of the things I look forward to most, is new books under the tree, and that magic time between Christmas and New year when I can sit quietly and read. Following our retreat in Annapolis earlier this month, I asked our staff for their favorite books about the world.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 28, 2023

Non-fiction. Even comic books. Summer Implement the plan you started upon in the winter. Nothing can help prepare you for the English language portions of the standardized testing than reading. Magazines and newspapers. Read at every opportunity.

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Study and Go Abroad

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read a book each month Lots of people want to read more often, but the pace of life can make relaxing with a book seem decadent , if not downright impossible. Books come in all shapes and sizes. But squeezing in a little reading time each month can be done. Reading a bit before bed, or on the bus to campus, can work wonders.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 14, 2023

Write a Memoir: Have learners document their experience by writing a book about it. Carrying big books around on road trips or on plane can be a pain. I also have Kindle Unlimited for my own children, so they have access to any book they want, which makes personalized learning much easier. My writers love this option.

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Will Richardson

MARCH 3, 2020

So in the spirit of blogging my way to greater understanding… Next week marks the release here in the US of a new Will Storr book titled The Science of Storytelling , and from the reviews that I’ve come across so far, I’m intrigued enough to have queued up the download on my Kindle when it comes out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Anyway, it was not clear what insight into the books themselves would follow. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical. Q: You don’t historicize The Hobbit in the naïve or narrow sense of interpreting it as a fictionalized response to real-world events.

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Study and Go Abroad

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Read a book each month. Lots of people want to read more often, but the pace of life can make relaxing with a book seem decadent , if not downright impossible. Books come in all shapes and sizes. But squeezing in a little reading time each month can be done. Reading a bit before bed, or on the bus to campus, can work wonders.

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Student Housing Works

MAY 26, 2021

Charles Yu | LAW’01 | National Book Award Winner Author Charles Yu had a career as a corporate attorney after graduating from Columbia Law School in 2001, before he turned his attention to his first love: writing. He has written for Westworld and Legion and today, he is a full-time fiction and TV writer, with several novels under his belt.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

“[The media] started playing on the fact that one of his professors had written a book about BTK, who was a serial killer, not a mass killer. ” said Fox, who is also the author of Killer on Campus ( Avon Books , 1996) and Extreme Killing ( Sage , 2018). ” Stranger Than Fiction. These crimes are very different.”

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Book of interviews or personal essays Write a proposal All of these could be completed using a simple word processor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, but tools such as FlipSnack offer options to insert images and video clips. If you purchase a product through one of them I will receive a small commission (at no cost to you).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JULY 10, 2023

You read books about storytelling. The kind of books that film or fiction writing students might be assigned in their MFA programs. Books like Story by Robert McKee and Story Genius by Lisa Cron, but you also return to old loves like Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. You will inhale these books.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Someone mentioned that in the K-12 world, students are taught—sometimes deliberately, sometimes by default—that the book they’re reading is true. Fiction is an obvious exception, but even there, it’s assumed that the work is generally recognized as great or it wouldn’t have been assigned.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You don’t understand Chinese, but you have an extensive rule book written in English. This book tells you exactly how to respond to Chinese characters that come through the incoming slot. Is it the book? We generally don’t say books understand anything. Is it the man/book combination?

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Great College Advice

JUNE 26, 2023

NOTABLE ALUMNI of PROVIDENCE COLLEGE Raymond Flynn, former Mayor of Boston Rich Gotham, President, Boston Celtics Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Arthur F. appointed by George W.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. Its education should be measured by its success in producing transformational, consequential leaders.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In the past for this series, there have been local poets and authors that have graced Hope’s campus, but this morning at 11 o’clock in the Knickerbocker Theater (which is in the building next to the Anderson-Werkman Center ), the VWS hosted Tim O’Brien, author of the famous book, The Things They Carried. How cool is that?!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Myths are treated as narrative fictions that deceive, delude and distort, often deliberately and with design. Frontier heroes, whether living figures like Daniel Boone or fictional creations like James Fenimore Cooper’s Hawkeye, were, at once, pioneers and natural aristocrats even as they displaced Native peoples. As James Q.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Also, read science fiction. Digital content is, as Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson put it in their book, Machine, Platform, Crowd , “Free, perfect and instant.” Read research on libraries critically. Write and present. it will focus your thinking and require you to engage with the research literature.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I once asked him to modify a chapter of an OER book for me. He told me he couldn’t do the work unless he could see the whole book to verify that it was ethically OK to modify the content. I told him, “Claude, that book is 700 pages. Even you don’t have the attention span to read that much.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

In 1904, he popularized a new age category in a book entitled Adolescence. Marketers subsequently identified other categories like teenyboppers and tweens, along with distinct categories of goods, like young adult fiction. Stanley Hall.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Even a game that is largely fictional or fantasy-driven can nonetheless provide students with a chance to discuss what makes the game misleading and historically mistaken and the difference between historical authenticity and artful and deceitful reconstructions.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

Geoff Mulgan’s recent book When Science Meets Power analyses in detail how politics, policy, research and findings are muddled and muddied and lays out how scientists, politicians and bureaucrats need to acknowledge their strengths, knowledge (epistemic humility) and democratic values to make expert knowledge and politics work together.

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Besides taking Advanced Fiction , I am also in Intermediate Poetry , and it has been so rewarding in the smallest of ways. For one, I never considered myself a poet, not even a “potential” poet, so for me to actually write poems every week is a success in my book!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction – a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences, and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction – voice, style, language, imagery, narrative, and more.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer history courses at Goldsmiths University in London, as part of a cost-cutting programme in which 130 academic jobs (..)

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

Anyone who says they know what’s going to happen next is either reading too much science fiction, a billionaire who is used to saying made-up stuff without consequence, or both. Because the products were just pages in a book, their adopters could pick and choose what they used and how they used it. And fill in gaps.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

But Miranda is a fictional character. Miranda’s words appear in the book in a bitterly ironic fashion from the mouth of the character John, a “savage” who has grown up outside of societal conditioning. Only with the metadata supplied by the actor (or the reader) can we arrive at a useful interpretation.

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