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Dr. John B. Slaughter, First Black Chancellor of the University of Maryland, Dies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the role, he worked to improve the school’s recruitment and retention of African American students and faculty. Navy Electronics Laboratory; and director of the applied physics laboratory at the University of Washington.

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Peyton Manning Appointed Professor of Practice in University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I look forward to working with the college’s talented faculty and directly with students in an effort to ensure they are well prepared for their future careers.”

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Ohio State Emeritus Professor Wins Nobel in Physics

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Pierre Agostini, who has been a member of OSU’s physics faculty since 2005; Ferenc Krausz, who is affiliated with two German institutions; and Anne L’Huillier, of Lund University in Sweden, received the honor for developing new strategies to understand the rapid movements of electrons.

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

1994-2004 – Institutional Adjustment and Affirmative Inaction Affirmative action was expected to result in substantially larger numbers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans as students and faculty members in historically white colleges and universities.

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Addressing Failures of Implementation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

digital transfer conversation with the inception of SPEEDE (Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange) in the 1970s. Most institutions accept some third-party serviced electronic documents, but the majority consume that digital delivery in an analog fashion. AACRAO began leading the U.S.

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Fostering Connectedness in the Asynchronous Online Environment

The Scholarly Teacher

Faculty can make a difference by creating opportunities to engage in transformational educational experiences in the online discussion board. Faculty must deliberately plan to enhance the opportunity for connectedness in the asynchronous online environment; as we have seen, it does not happen by chance.

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Students Recreate Historical Garments From DIA Artworks

College for Creative Study

With world-class faculty and unsurpassed facilities, students learn to be visual communicators who actively use art and design toward the betterment of society. CCS fosters students’ resolve to pursue excellence, act ethically, engage their responsibilities as citizens, and learn throughout their lives.