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Industry and STEMM Leaders Convene for White House Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These 10 include the likes of American Institutes for Research (AIR), Jobs for the Future (JFF), Morgan State University, and Spelman College. As an anchor partner, Spelman’s work will focus on the pillar of innovation, which partly has to do with making sure that researchers from marginalized communities get equitable funding and support.

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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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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions. It helps us advance research and writing projects that would otherwise languish on our more wishful to-do lists.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D. Those same students are talented, creative.

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s not lost on me that mine is an incredibly rare experience, which I think is really unfortunate.” Many of them expressed that their credentials and research were second-guessed during the evaluation process, which sadly, aligns with the narratives of many Black professors who seek tenure and promotion.

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California Reconnect To Give Some College, No Degree Students A Leg Up

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The coalition includes California Completes, a higher education and workforce research nonprofit offering guidance to state policy makers; InsideTrack, an organization that offers personalized coaching to help students succeed; ProjectAttain!, Research from The National Student Clearinghouse, which collects and analyzes data from 97% of U.S.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1).

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