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CCS Summer Camps Included as Top in Metro Detroit

College for Creative Study

Community Outreach CCS Detroit Precollege and Continuing Studies Summer Camps YputhThe post CCS Summer Camps Included as Top in Metro Detroit appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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Tuskegee and Auburn Universities Work to Address Racial and Health Disparities in Alabama

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tuskegee and Auburn Universities have agreed to collaborate on partnership expansion between the schools and community outreach. The impact of this partnership will benefit the students of both schools and the surrounding communities where we are based,” said Tuskegee Provost Dr. S.

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Saint Louis University Launches Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Saint Louis University (SLU) has launched its Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN), which will connect experts in biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology, social justice, and community outreach to study the brain and central nervous system.

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

The Scholarly Teacher

Service-learning is a common pedagogy in disciplines such as nursing, business, and sociology in which community service is combined with the application of knowledge and skills gained from the classroom (Mackenzie et al., They are best executed when community partnerships already exist.

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Exploring the Roots of Racial Bias

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her lab actively does community outreach to collaborate with schools and community partners like EmbraceRace, an organization that supports parents in raising children to be informed and thoughtful about race. Miao Qian Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy Age: 32 Education: B.A., finance and economics, Zhejiang University, China; M.A., Zhejiang Normal University, China; and Ph.D.,

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The conservative Manhattan Institute recently published a report that argues that the promotion of Social Justice ideology in K-12 schools and colleges is having a measurable impact on students’ political views and partisan leanings.

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How to Improve Teaching Quality and Effectiveness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I myself have never seen a teaching award bestowed because an instructor integrated career identification and planning into a course or experimented with an inquiry-, project-, or competency-based based approach or designed a class with a community-outreach component. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Whatever else academic freedom means, at many colleges and universities, it is the right to teach however one wants without regard to learning outcomes.

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Museums and College Campuses as Community Hubs and Cultural Centers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Meanwhile, public expectations about the kind of diverse, immersive, interactive, participatory, and technology-enhanced exhibits museums should offer escalate, while their educational and community outreach responsibilities mount. Engage all sectors of the community.