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Developing Young Assessment Professionals: A Year-long Professional Development Series for Assessment Graduate Assistants

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Seeing this need, I initiated the creation of a professional development series designed to enhance graduate assistants’ (GAs) capabilities, and empower their growth and development as assessment professionals. Identify your priorities. Narrow down your goals for the series.

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Melvin C. Terrell Scholars Dive into Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I had no idea how to do research,” she said. Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I It’s not my strong suit.”

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New Professional Development Certificates for PhDs and Postdocs

CAPD

Applications open Monday, October 16th We are excited to announce that applications open Monday for two new professional development certificate programs for PhDs and postdocs for AY 2023-2024: the Research Mentoring Certificate and the Grant Writing Training Certificate. Applications open October 16th and close on November 1st.

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Engaging Students in Faculty Research

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Student Research, Experiential Learning, High-Impact Practice Introduction We adapted and implemented high-impact practices (HIPs) to engage undergraduate and graduate students in faculty research based on the principles of adult learning theory (Knowles, 1990) and cognitive learning theory (Sincero, 2011).

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Faculty Job Search Series & more graduate careers and professional development updates

CAPD

CAPD’s team devoted to graduate student career and professional development has been busy this semester. Stay tuned for programming that covers the application dossier itself, from crafting and polishing the CV and cover letter to the all-important research statement, teaching statement, and diversity statement.

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Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation Selects Recipients for 2023 Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He is also a research associate in Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB), where he researches Black men identities, feminism, and masculinity. “I is to provide support for African American, LatinX and other underrepresented groups through scholarships, grants and professional development.

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‘To diary or not to diary’? – lessons learned from the SRHE workshop ‘Using Diary Method in Social Research’

SRHE

by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad.

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