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New Report A Mixed Bag on Student Engagement with Online Learning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Would students really be able to learn as well remotely as they had in-person? Would student engagement suffer? And while student engagement was lower by some measures, by others, it increased. Whenever student engagement is lower, student outcomes are poorer,” said Ortagus.

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Diversifying the Workforce for Data-Related Jobs Starts with Inclusivity in Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carol Parish Increasing and diversifying a workforce skilled to fill these data-driven jobs can be achieved through highly mentored, intentional involvement in innovative, publishable research projects. We have also developed programs to recruit and retain students interested in science.

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How Scholarship, Service, and Experience Inform One Professor's Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Massey, an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Binghamton University, a State University of New York (SUNY) institution, is leading research on the Gay Men’s Health Crisis History Project. Massey also co-facilitates the Binghamton Human Sexualities Lab with three colleagues.

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Incorporating Virtual Instructional Strategies that Increase Student Engagement

The Scholarly Teacher

The challenge now is how to keep students on-task and engaged with the content. The following suggestions aim to help ensure student success and engagement in your next course. Research suggests that virtual environments are different from face-to-face teaching with respect to learning and need to be modified accordingly.

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Pushing Back on the DEI Pushback

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Iceberg Demographic Schema Fourth , public universities must incentivize and reward interdisciplinary research that is purposefully designed to assess the veracity of competing theories, hypotheses, and perspectives on pressing societal issues, including those undergirding the DEI pushback.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

Here, two of our presenters Dr Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns , reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the third symposium on ‘Assemblages’. Collaboration can happen everywhere and anywhere – via a student-staff partnership project; via dialogic modes of teaching, via group work, via walking and other creative pedagogies.