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Edington Appointed President of the University of the District of Columbia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"Areas of focus will include increasing student success, increasing support for faculty, expanding academic program offerings, increasing research productivity, enrollment and degree production, fundraising, external relations, and economic development,” Edington said. “My

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Create a Trauma-Sensitive Learning Environment Using Container-Setting

The Scholarly Teacher

Explicit container-setting provides direction about where and how students have agency, expected behavior, and what resources/structure will be provided as support (Cheon et al., A student who has little agency at home may learn to think critically and draw conclusions in a classroom that prioritizes the importance of agency.

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CUNY Cares Connect Students with Essential Benefits and Community Resources

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CUNY’s integrated approach, which leverages our expertise with peer-to-peer student relationships and productive partnerships with local governmental agencies and community-based organizations, aims to build an all-encompassing system of support. Matos Rodríguez.

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Music Opens Doorway to Opportunity for Incarcerated Youth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s part of BreakFree Education, an organization which partners with juvenile justice agencies across the nation to offer educational programs. Music takes you out of your circumstances of life,” said Sean Slade, a music producer and associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music.

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College Board Disputes Florida Claims of Similar Language in African American Studies Course

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"We resolutely disagree with the notion that enslavement was in any way a beneficial, productive, or useful experience for African Americans," the College Board said in a statement. Unequivocally, slavery was an atrocity that cannot be justified by examples of African Americans’ agency and resistance during their enslavement."

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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We do that to keep up with the output and production of people for the knowledge economy essentially, well-trained, graduate education-trained people." Brian McKenzie, director of research at CGS and lead author of the report. "We During data collection, CGS asked schools to report on their prior classes, McKenzie said.

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How to grow Peer Support, community and belonging for online students?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In this extra post, Shian Holt reflects not only on the ‘how’ to build Peer Support online but also the ‘why’ Arguing that fostering belonging for online students is key to helping them develop agency and confidence in their own knowlege-production. Online […]