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A Sign that Tuition is too High: Some Colleges Are Slashing it in Half - Anemona Hartocollis, NY Times

Ray Schroeder

The reset is part marketing move and part reality check. They are high in part to mimic the price tag of the most elite colleges and universities — suggesting that this is an education worth paying for — but, in reality, the prices are not based in fact. At Colby-Sawyer, every student gets a discount.

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Six factors to improve student connections

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For example: A faculty member can establish these aspects with an activity in their classroom, perhaps setting up small groups that check in each week to work on a project. First, involve students in a regular check-in to see what is going well or not so well in their lives. Tell us about it. Is this diversity newsletter?

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

They also know how to go about checking for accuracy in terms of both content and conventions. Before spell-check, my writing was “bordering on the illiterate,” as one of my English professors once wrote in the margins of an essay on Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale.” Attention to detail is essential.

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Investigative Reporting Organization Moves to Morehouse

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Wells Society will help to teach Morehouse journalism students how to conduct interviews, find data, fact-check stories, pitch article ideas, use relevant technology and take advantage of open records laws. ” Ad keywords: diversity Editorial Tags: Historically black colleges Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Gunman kills three, injures five at Michigan State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The fact that this shooting took place the night before this country marks five years since the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, should cause every American to exclaim ‘enough’ and demand that Congress take action. Is this diversity newsletter?

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A new generation of conservative student newspapers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The founders of both The Liberty Jacket and the Collegian said they aimed to be “objective” in their reporting and rigorous in their fact-checking. Greve said his paper established its fact-checking process after initially finding some unsubstantiated claims in early articles that they then had to correct.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

If Columbus arrived in the US in 2015 … he might be surprised to find out that many people don’t view him as a hero anymore; in fact, some people argue that he was a brutal conqueror who enslaved and killed native people.” Perform a reality check with all AI engagements. We will mediate, introduce and teach.