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Employability: What does the research tell us?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities. Last year, Advance HE conducted a thorough […].

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Are We There Yet? Revising and Questioning Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I believe that we, well, most of us, that 50 years later, we might be further along. However, given my experience and from what is gleaned from research, both of those subtext-filled innuendos are used as divisive maneuvers to explain why people of color do not seem to appear in the “pool.”

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College Counseling: How Much Does College Counseling Cost?

Great College Advice

How Much Does College Counseling Cost? What is college counseling? How much does college counseling cost? High school college counseling Most US high schools offer some form of college counseling, but the quality of these services varies widely. How much does college counseling cost with an IEC?

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a professional setting, tell no one that you’re queer. What confirmed that his mentors — Latino college advisors, speaking from the pain of personal experience — had given him some bad advice were the happenings he witnessed in 2010 at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference.

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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If I have students living on campus in housing and they get sick, what are we going to do, say ‘go in the morning?’” Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader.

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‘Freedom on the Move,’ Clarifying Complicity in American History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A portal on the website lists specific ways that K-12 educators can use the database to develop classroom lessons. But the ads also ended up telling an important story about the Black struggle for freedom. This is why I’m so enamored with a database called “Freedom on the Move.”

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Planning For Active Learning Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Key Statement: Research is clear that combining lecture and active learning results in the best learning outcomes. An extraordinary amount of research shows clearly that augmenting lectures with some form of active learning enhances student learning. The researchers also found that students were 1.5 Active Learning: The “How?”.