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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When you think about our history, were the first community college in the state of California whose accreditation was revoked, and to go from that in 2006 to be where were at now and to be on the cutting edge, that tells you that transformation can happen, but transformation can happen in communities where we look like the students.

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Can Art History Be Taught Without Someone Becoming Angry?

Inside Higher Ed

In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!” And vice versa.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

Faculty Focus

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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NIH Grant to Study Infertility, Health Among Women of Mexican Heritage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The goal of the study, which is co-funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Research on Women's Health, divisions of the National Institutes of Health, is to help improve health outcomes through early screenings and interventions.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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Brown Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Celebrates 10 Years

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is former president of Brown University. “If

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What’s love got to do with neurodiversity and HE art and design?

SRHE

I’m also saying this as someone who’s curated several, including one on running as an arts and humanities discourse that a 2014 Guardian article said ‘other conferences could take a leaf out of’, for its 8-minute sprint formats and multi-modal approaches including film screening, meditation sessions and run-chats.