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

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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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility. Ambrose, S. John Wiley & Sons.

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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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility. Ambrose, S. John Wiley & Sons.

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Utilizing Conflict Management Strategies to Navigate Difficult Classroom Discussions 

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Since it is an innate part of human interaction, it can catalyze critical thinking and profound understanding. These techniques can empower the students to express their viewpoints without fear and intimidation, to engage in meaningful discussions, and to find common ground.

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Utilizing Conflict Management Strategies to Navigate Difficult Classroom Discussions 

Faculty Focus

Since it is an innate part of human interaction, it can catalyze critical thinking and profound understanding. These techniques can empower the students to express their viewpoints without fear and intimidation, to engage in meaningful discussions, and to find common ground.

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Success in the Classroom: Leading a Diverse Student Body 

Faculty Focus

Adler and Aycan remind readers that every facet of human life is increasingly more global and diverse. This increase in diversity comes with unique challenges because cross-cultural agility (the ability to flex when faced with novelty) is extremely unnatural to humans, says Caligiuri. Journal of Human Resources, 56(1), 73 – 92.

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Course Design as a Gateway to Student Well-being 

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Far from being a distraction, effective backchanneling empowers students to take control of their own learning (Peters & Toledo, 2010). Dr. Demian Hommel, PhD, teaches introductory and upper-division human geography courses in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. Toledo, C (2010).

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Research co-creation may be the key to impact

SRHE

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate. Why is this divide important for SRHE?