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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). Ong-Dean, C. Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. What is deficit thinking? Currents, 1 (1).

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). Ong-Dean, C. Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. What is deficit thinking? Currents, 1 (1).

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Some deans and faculty members caught wind of us because students started saying, ‘The work I'm doing with this organization is important to me seeing how I get through SJSU, but also how I pay off my debt or help my family when I get out.’ “We got lucky when we were running a 17-person bootcamp at San Jose State. Here’s what Ms.

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Why Executive Coaching Works in Higher Education

Edu Alliance Journal

By contrast, Clayton defines wisdom as the ability to grasp human nature, which is paradoxical, contradictory, and subject to continual change. According to Stenberg (2005), knowing how adds creativity and experience to our knowledge. International journal of aging & human development, 15(4), 315–321. link] [link].

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President’s corner: How Rob Vischer balances growth with century-old values at University of St. Thomas

University Business

As the dean of St. Thomas, dating back to becoming an associate law professor in 2005. Thomas is also in the middle of making an audacious jump from Division III athletics to Division I, strengthened by a $75 million gift— the single-largest private monetary gift given to a Minnesotan university —for a multiuse sports arena.

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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.