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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Both of my parents made their children aware of African history and geography when we were young,” reflects Brooks, during his most recent excursion to Kenya. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.”

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He previously was given a death sentence, but that was overturned in 2011. Alongside the opening, there will be a two-day symposium, “Voices of Mass Incarceration,” about law enforcement, prison medical care, public art, incarceration’s effects on women and girls, and the history of incarceration.

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Leicester – A super diverse-city

HEPI

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. increase in the population born outside UK living in Leicester since 2011, compared to a 3.4%

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

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Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. link] Sweller, J.,

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. link] Sweller, J.,

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What is a Chancellor for?

HEPI

This HEPI long read was kindly authored by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. In appointing Cambridge’s current retiring Chancellor in 2011 the Nomination Board proposed Lord Sainsbury but additional nominations were invited from members of the Senate.

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