Remove students campus-life my-sentiment-is-showing
article thumbnail

Life in Holland: Christmas Edition!

Hope College Network

Life is full of joy and celebration whether you’re walking downtown, visiting your favorite coffee shop, or attending a Christmas performance in Dimnent Chapel. There’s plenty of ways to get into the Christmas spirit here, but I want to talk about my top five aspects of life in Holland during this time of year!

article thumbnail

The Mobile Generation is Evolving

University Business

If we’ve learned anything by year three of surveying higher ed students on their financial and technology habits, it’s that calling today’s students the mobile generation is accurate. Similarly, usage of smartphone apps to make payments also remains high at 72 percent.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How About We Put Learning at the Center?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Visiting As I wrote previously at my Substack newsletter , regarding the widespread awareness of the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) algorithm, it’s been a somewhat exciting time for me as an issue that I happen to know something about becomes so prominent in a broader national conversation.

article thumbnail

Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Confessions of a Community College Dean

1 barrier to academic success cited by students in the survey over all. The share of students who say this is even larger for key subgroups, including those with learning disabilities or related conditions. Relatedly, half of students want professors to experiment with different teaching styles. This was the No.

Faculty 129
article thumbnail

What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The result: To discourage students from learning and thinking “critically about the connection between the design of our institutions and the uneven way in which opportunity and resources are meted out in America.” Even more striking are two striking facts. Why is this the case?

article thumbnail

The Dangers of Dogmatism

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Enough with my musings about the sorry state of romance in the 21 st century digital jungle. ” Professor Lloyd asked the non-profit Telluride Association if he could lead one of its free summer seminars for highly motivated diverse high school students. Let’s turn to the academy.

article thumbnail

Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

46% of students surveyed have explored sustainability topics within their coursework. Image: While campus sustainability efforts have steadily grown over recent decades, COVID caused a pause at many institutions. “Within minutes the chancellor was calling, saying, ‘What are you doing with Styrofoam on campus?’

Food 90