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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. By the 3rd century BC, Greek inventors like Archytas built the steam-powered Flying Pigeon, an early self-operating device (Berryman, 2003). 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

Faculty Focus

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind Debunked: Humanizing Asynchronous Online Courses Using an Inclusive Survey

Faculty Focus

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Community colleges renew push for four-year degrees, but universities push back

University Business

The Palatine-based school first lobbied legislators in 2003 under then-President Robert Breuder, and tried again in 2009 and 2014. This is not an attempt for community colleges to become four-year institutions and offer psychology or humanities bachelors degrees. Now it is making another push with President Avis Proctor at the helm.

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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

And it's really about our humanity. LeBlanc became President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in 2003. From 1993 to 1996 he directed a technology start-up for Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, was President of Marlboro College (VT) from 1996 to 2003. Disruptive Innovation and Higher Ed. Bios of Guest and Co-Hosts.

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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2003. The rule of law is the cornerstone of human freedom and progress,” Beasley said. While serving as governor, Beasley advocated for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State House dome. His efforts earned him the John F.