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How Much Risk Should You Take with Your College Essays? Here Are Some Tips

Great College Advice

While I can’t account for every admissions reader’s personal preferences. The expert college admissions consultants at Great College Advice can help you brainstorm topics, develop your ideas, structure your essay, and edit it to perfection. We’d be happy to talk to you.

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Increasing Belongingness Through a Strengths-Based Approach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Maybe this means finding out that your students prefer presentations to quizzes every week. Education can become the act of “drawing out” student’s strengths and helping them to develop if we use a strength-based approach. Trying to increase a sense of belongingness does us no good if a student doesn’t know who they are.

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Ring The Alarm: A Call to Action for Black Women to Address Wellness in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As we navigate the treacherous waters of 2024, let us honor those we have lost by being mindful of the debilitating structures we are up against. Homework: Use whatever medium you prefer to create something reflective of where you are today on your wellness journey. Indulge in the arts. June 2024- Are you financially well?

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Twelve things you can do in Handshake

CAPD

Search to match employer preferences Filters are a great way to make the thousands of opportunities in Handshake more manageable to search through. You can easily edit who can view your documents too. You can adjust your notifications under “Notification Preferences” located in your “Settings.”

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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last year saw the arrival of the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies , updated from the 2015 original. Burke notes that while the Routledge handbook has 51 contributors, not one of them is a historian, a situation that has not changed in the new edition. Clearly it is a growing field.

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McCaughey is author of the books Stand Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754–2004 , which he is currently updating for a revised edition, and A College of Her Own: The History of Barnard. “I Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College (women’s undergraduate college of Columbia University).

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Unit 1 will address the question “What is work?” --and how do we pursue and find work that is personally meaningful to us. editing, rewriting). Following is an excerpt from the syllabus: The course will be organized around three main units, each guided by a specific question that we will aim to address.