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Special Education Professor Taps into Technology, Grant Funding to Engage Students

Insight Into Diversity

In 2001, Evmenova left her home in Saratov, Russia, for East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., She received GMU’s Teaching Excellence Award for Technology-Enhanced Teaching in 2016, the inaugural GMU Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2018, and the John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching in 2023.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Turn it off and on again: digital literacy in college students

ACRLog

Surely, the kids who have grown up with technology are good at it, right? Those of us who work in universities, whether as faculty, staff, or otherwise, need to remember that students using technology for interaction and leisure doesn’t necessarily translate to familiarity with tools for academic or professional work. link] Prensky, M.

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President moves: Miami installs a new leader as hiring intensifies

University Business

Chamberlain, who began his career at the school as a chemistry instructor in 2001, will replace President Jenifer K. Darr – Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Eric D. Darr has resigned as president of Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Ward when she retires in June.

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C2YC Past Award Recipients

ACPA

Bentley, Moraine Valley Community College 2008 – Sarah Evenson-Merranko, College of Southern Maryland 2007 – Not awarded 2006 – Kari Kahler, Northwestern Michigan College 2005 – Nancy W. Darrell Anthony Luzzo, Mt. Darrell Anthony Luzzo, Mt. Hood Community College; William E. Hitchings, St.

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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.”