Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The initiatives include a summer bridge program for students who have not passed the Texas Success Initiative and have not yet been deemed college-ready; a redesign of its First Year Seminar course to focus on career exploration and academic skills; an improvement to faculty professional development opportunities; and a loan program for laptops.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A First-Year Seminar Built for Student Veterans Ashley Mowreader Mon, 02/17/2025 - 03:00 AM A new course offering at the University of Texas at San Antonio seeks to assist veterans and other students in transitioning into the university. Byline(s) Ashley Mowreader

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Greetings from the seminar "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: National Security Secrecy and Australia's Liberal Democracy" from ANU. Emily Hitchman points out that technology has presented a challenge for national security in the past, with fax machines providing a way to breach security long before Wikileaks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page was a United Negro College Fund/Mellon International Faculty Seminar Fellow and is a certified Supplemental Instruction Supervisor. Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017.

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Hope College Network

MARCH 3, 2025

FYS stands for First Year Seminar. The learning part is a class where these students meet to have difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion within a First Year Seminar structure. All freshmen at Hope take an FYS class in their first semesterbut what actually is FYS? The content of instruction varies per course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The five-course concentration will require one 100- or 200-level introductory gateway course, a 400-level senior seminar with a capstone project, and three electives across at least two academic divisions. The fact that it won’t, because it just got passed today, is proving my doubts wrong… It’s very happy and very surreal.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours. The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts.

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CAPD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The MIT Energy and Climate Club (MITEC) is excited to announce our speaker lineup for the Fall 2023 MITEC Student Seminar Series! Seminars will start this Friday and happen weekly, from 12-1PM in 66-168, with lunch provided. We have a variety of speakers on topics ranging from climate policy to concrete structure optimization.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 22, 2024

Teaching high school senior seminars and observing outcomes has been one of the highlights of my career as an educator. The benefits of high school senior seminars are out of this world. There are so many different ideas for senior project elements or senior seminar components from projects to papers to internships and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Roompact

MAY 26, 2025

I attend workshops, watch seminars, host a weekly trivia game at a local bar, Ive collected. When it comes to seeking out professional and personal development opportunities, I am like a frantic squirrel hunting for nuts. There is so much I want to learn and so many skills I want to add to my repertoire. Continue Reading →

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The end goal, he said, is to create a “system and network within institutions focused on creating the highest quality of access for Black students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Career planning is introduced during the first year seminar at LaGuardia. Stacia Edwards, deputy provost of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), a group of seven colleges that serve over 60,000 students with everything from GED preparation to certificates and associate degree programs.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Office of Graduate Fellowships offers a three-part seminar series on Zoom for graduate students interested in learning more about investing, in conjunction with Fidelity Investments: Five Money Musts; Tues., February 28, 12pm Principles of Investing & Managing a Portfolio; Wed., March 22, 12pm Tools for Investing; Online Demo ; Wed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Our wrap-around support includes monthly events, a first-year seminar, customized internship programs, and intentionally celebrating the first-gen identity. In addition to the success team, we provide first-generation programming for students and their families during orientation to ease the transition to college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With this as a backdrop, the Education Writers Association gathered a panel of experts to discuss social mobility as part of its annual Higher Education Seminar, hosted at the University of California, Riverside. Suddenly, social mobility is getting the attention that it has long deserved.

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University Business

MAY 5, 2025

Career centers can offer seminars on soft skills such as networking strategies, effective communication, and interview etiquette. Student government and club leadership roles teach organization, negotiation, and leadership firsthand; advisors can help students connect those experiences to future workplace behavior.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This unfair treatment of women relative to men pervades all aspects of the profession, from seminar rooms where women are patronized and disproportionately peppered with hostile questions after presenting, to editorial offices where women have a more difficult time publishing and being recognized for their expertise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 19, 2024

Cornell University communication professor Monica Cornejo was arrested for disorderly conduct Tuesday during a campus seminar led by conservative media personality Ann Coulter, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

In contrast to purely technological applications, Dimitrios Gerogiorgis explores his approaches to blended learning, highlighting the crucial role of in-class seminars. He offers practical advice on how to effectively implement this strategy to achieve deeper student engagement.

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Hope College Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

First-Year Seminar Course My friends from my Seminar class out at dinner on a field trip to Dearborn, MI Every first-year at Hope is required to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) class. After having adjusted and established a routine, the workload becomes much more natural and manageable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Del Pilar said more institutions need to prioritize pushing back their acceptance dates, delay their own planning for classes, and seminars while students and families do not have the information and time, they need to make a critical decision about where to attend college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 12, 2023

I am actually sitting in the seminar room at ANU, where Roger is presenting. That is also going out on Zoom, but I am listing to the ACEN seminar

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? Provosts, too.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 17, 2023

The phenomenon of international students’ reticence in seminars has been well documented, along with the explanations students themselves have offered for this (e.g. Green, 2016; Morita, 2004 ; Phan Le Ha and Binghui Li, 2014 ; Tatar, 2005 ; Yates and Nguyen, 2012 ). References Green, C. 2016) ‘Time to talk about talking? :

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2025

I am reminded of a comment from a postgraduate taught student, who told me he was in seminar with students from over thirty countries, and he was disappointed when the seminar did not create opportunities for sharing perspectives or information from these countries.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover Elizabeth Redden Sat, 11/11/2023 - 09:07 AM Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar. Byline(s) Laura Skandera Trombley

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Higher Education Whisperer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Greetings from the AI, ML and Friends Seminar at the Australian National University in Canberra, where Dr. Zak Kingston from Rice University is speaking on "Scaling Multi-Modal Planning". That doesn't sound very exciting, but he is speaking from the USA, where he has been planning how to use a robot on the International Space Station.

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Roompact

APRIL 16, 2024

The question was from one of my students in our student leadership seminar, a course designed for incoming resident assistants, peer mentors, and orientation leaders. “Professor, what’s your favorite song on the album?”

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JUNE 27, 2025

GeoSciences seminar, Global Change Research Group, School of GeoSciences. But now, at university, the settings I had once loved had disappeared: homework changed to coursework; lessons to lectures, tutorials or seminars; and, because of Covid, my first learning experiences were virtual. I found this comforting.

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AIFS Abroad

JUNE 12, 2025

Honors Inquiry Seminar (1 credit): Complementing the City as Text course, the Honors seminar facilitates interdisciplinary research, group discussions, and career skill development via mentor tutorials and expert lecturers, leading to a final research presentation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

He made an introduction, which led to her giving a seminar at Bell Labs that turned into a colloquium, which was attended by all the scientists from the research area at Bell Labs. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. She called the physicist she met at the summer school.

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Higher Education Whisperer

JULY 2, 2023

Last week I attended a seminar on weaponizing Chat GPT with defence & AI experts from around the Ruth Lewis, workshop facilitatorGreeting from the Australian Computer Society Canberra office, where I am taking part in an IEEE AI Ethics and Governance Workshop. Over the next few days we will be looking at ethics and technological development.

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