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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Tintos Theory of Departure (1997) and Pascarella and Terenzinis (2005) Influence Theory emphasize the importance of student-faculty interactions in fostering academic success. and Patrick T.

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. In sharing the news of his appointment, the 2005 alumnus of Florida A&M University (FAMU) described his move as "the most fulfilling career choice I have ever made."

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Tintos Theory of Departure (1997) and Pascarella and Terenzinis (2005) Influence Theory emphasize the importance of student-faculty interactions in fostering academic success. and Patrick T.

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The myth of the organisational silo: or, clever t**s and silly robins

HEPI

Dr Gavin Miller ( @drgavinmiller ) is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Glasgow. This blog post draws on his recent article, ‘ Disruption, transformation and silos: medical humanities and the management gurus ’ published in Medical Humanities. De Geus means living and dying literally.

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

via Stephen Wolfram Writings, 2/124/23) Bios of Guest and Co-Hosts Guest: Drew Magliozzi , CEO, Mainstay Andrew Magliozzi is a social entrepreneur, educator, and web developer, aspiring to help people learn and live better lives with the help of technology and human instruction.

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HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Faculty Focus

HyFlex has been around since 2005, designed to increase enrollment (Beatty, 2019). The HyFlex format may be a new trend that surfaced because of COVID-19; however, academia understands the importance of continuing to provide access to learning through non-traditional methods.