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16 Fun College Orientation Activities & Icebreakers to Encourage Student Engagement in 2022!

Campus Groups

Create clues for must-visit places on campus such as the library, student center, gym, health center, bookstore, advising center, and other important buildings to know. Enlist art, music, dance & theater students to produce and direct entertaining performances or skits that promote campus life and culture!

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. ” Yet we can’t do better if we fail to reflect on the past and extract its messages and warnings.