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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

of all NIH-funded studies concerned LGBTQ+ health—excluding projects about HIV/AIDS and other sexual health matters, according to the National Library of Medicine. Outside of the university, UPenn and Eidos are working with Violet, a start-up health equity platform, to develop their pedagogy on LGBTQ+ cultural competency.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. Space begins with walking through the main doors, the café, the social spaces, the library and of course the formal learning spaces. Julianne : Great question, and my research on identity development ties in with this.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton discusses the misconceptions and essential roles these institutions have in their communities with Executive Director Dr. Andrew Koricich of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, a research collaborative and resource hub that has completed the insurmountable task of defining what rural-serving institutions are.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. million in federal relief funding. Certainly, activism among graduate students, postdocs, lab assistants and researchers surged. percent year over year.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The group started its work with some funding from J-WEL and continued on a volunteer basis afterward because they all cared about the project. The context of the paper.

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How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 152 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Madeleine Atkins

The Change Leader, Inc.

and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham. In addition, she has served as vice chancellor at Coventry University, chief executive of the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council, and now she’s president at Lucy Cavendish. So we’re using research findings to shape that program. Very interesting.