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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

History can be many things. Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government. It can be both informative and purposely deceptive.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. We did some great work.”

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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 institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Tracking the Draft: An Academic Integrity Policy for Cheating with AI 

Faculty Focus

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

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INSIGHT Welcomes Robin R. Means Coleman as New Editorial Board Member

Insight Into Diversity

Coleman is the author of “Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present, 2 nd ed.” The Spike Lee Reader” (2008). An award-winning media studies scholar, Coleman’s work focuses on provocative narratives of social justice and the cultural politics of Blackness. She is the editor of “Say It Loud!

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Tracking the Draft: An Academic Integrity Policy for Cheating with AI 

Faculty Focus

When I went to Google Docs and clicked on version history, I was only getting days of drafts saved rather than actual changes made during a composing session. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version. Revision history in Google Docs.

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