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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Woodson in 1915, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, Black activism has surfaced in well-known titles such as Invisible Man , by Ralph Ellison, the ROOTS saga by Alex Haley and other notable Black authors such as Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Audre Lorde. Cornish and John B.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Dr. John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. I collected live bumble bees.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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Seize the Moment with “Call & Response” Podcast Learning Practices

Faculty Focus

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

The grants from these bodies are relatively large (for the arts, humanities and social sciences), and are typically expected to make a theoretical, not only empirical, contribution. NB Data are available from 2004, but no education grants are recorded for either 2004 or 2005.

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Seize the Moment with “Call & Response” Podcast Learning Practices

Faculty Focus

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4