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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Renowned human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died Mar. from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. Kitts in the Caribbean, with his wife, Hazel Ross-Robinson, in 2001. "I 24 at age 81. Left to right) Sen. Robinson – he held a J.D.

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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity

Faculty Focus

Writing also offers a unique space where grammar is applied practically, encouraging students to see grammatical structures not just as abstract rules but as tools for effective communication (Thompson, 2001; Hyland, 2000). 1, 2001, pp. 2009): 112-137. Thompson, G. Interaction in Academic Writing: Learning to Argue with the Reader.”

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CU Boulder’s ESG and Sustainability MBA Pathway Prepares Future Business Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

Formerly known as the Net Impact Case Competition, it has provided students with real-world business challenges since 2001. Effective leaders will need to have an understanding of ESG in any role since the environmental, social and governance risks currently facing humanity are core challenges and opportunities for every business.

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

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I’m also saying this as someone who’s curated several, including one on running as an arts and humanities discourse that a 2014 Guardian article said ‘other conferences could take a leaf out of’, for its 8-minute sprint formats and multi-modal approaches including film screening, meditation sessions and run-chats.

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ChatGPT: A Must-See Before the Semester Begins

Faculty Focus

At a time when it may feel like AI is stripping away our humanity, I wonder if it might be possible that it is handing us an opportunity to work with students far more than we talk at them. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity

Faculty Focus

Writing also offers a unique space where grammar is applied practically, encouraging students to see grammatical structures not just as abstract rules but as tools for effective communication (Thompson, 2001; Hyland, 2000). 1, 2001, pp. 2009): 112-137. Thompson, G. Interaction in Academic Writing: Learning to Argue with the Reader.”

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The English Major. If Only. 

Faculty Focus

Pearce writes about the “radical subjectivity that is our birthright as humans, the burden we carry for all time,” a burden for which English majors are ideally suited to carry, and which they don’t even view as a burden. To do that, students—in all disciplines—need to enroll in courses that prioritize those human, humanistic, capacities.