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Small College America – Profile College of Wooster

Edu Alliance Journal

Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. states and 76 countries. Diverse Community: With 27% U.S.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s is clearly growing.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

In 2011 a White Paper, Students at the heart of the system , proposed a revised ‘regulatory régime’, in which new kinds of provider of higher education would have greater freedom about what they wanted to do or to be. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.