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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Ambrose, S. Brookhart, S.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Ambrose, S. Brookhart, S.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michael Gutierrez “We believe that Hartnell College is an engine for economic vitality in our region and for students to move from poverty to prosperity,” says Michael Gutierrez, superintendent/president of Hartnell. “In When looking at mid-size metropolitan cities in the U.S.,

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What confirmed that his mentors — Latino college advisors, speaking from the pain of personal experience — had given him some bad advice were the happenings he witnessed in 2010 at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference. It was empowering,” he said.

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Wildlife Biology Professor Weaves Indigenous Heritage into Lessons

Insight Into Diversity

He attended three universities on the way to achieving his goal, but never had a professor of color teach any of his STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes. “I Gómez shares the story of his learning disability to empower students. “As For Gómez, getting to this place is personal. I care about their learning.”

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. CMU-Africa was established as CMU-Rwanda in 2011 as a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Pittsburgh-based university renowned for its engineering and technology programs.

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Celebrating Women in Tech at Liaison

Liaison International

Deb Erdner | Vice President, Operations Before coming to Liaison, Deb spent 10 years at Wilkes and PCOM, and since 2019, she’s served on the executive board at Wilkes School of Business and Engineering. We have done a great job of mentoring internally and empowering them to be what they want to be. But we can still do more.