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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since taking the helm in 2020, Jenkins has orchestrated a data-driven renaissance that has revolutionized student success rates and institutional effectiveness. Rather than accepting this as inevitable, his administration launched a comprehensive analysis of student data, policies, and practices.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Powered by Gecko, this technology has effectively increased our ability to answer prospective and current student questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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3 reasons state funding to public colleges is rising

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For only the second time in history, state funding to public colleges in 2023 exceeded per-student funding levels unseen since before the Great Recession. from an enrollment peak in 2011. million in 2023, down 0.5% since 2022 and down 12.1% Education appropriations increased 1.6% at two-year institutions and 4.2%

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

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A little over four centuries ago it might still be expected that a student at each of these institutions would study and be assessed both for a 4-year B.A. 1] The structure evolved into one where students – usually arriving as young teenagers – would study for four years for a B.A. But this would be incorrect. degree persist?

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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. I visited the African continent for the first time as a Fulbright doctoral student in 1985,” he says. Brooks met Naomi Hodge-Muse, co-author of Tales of Koehler Hollow , in 2012.

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Bringing Authentic Humor into the Classroom

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College teachers can use it to create a welcoming classroom environment, increase learning, improve attendance, and reduce test anxiety (Banas, Dunbar, Rodriguez, & Liu, 2011). Though students should never be the butt of a joke, barbed or personalized humor does occur in college courses (Wanzer, Frymier, Wojtaszczyk, & Smith, 2006).

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Bringing Authentic Humor into the Classroom

Faculty Focus

College teachers can use it to create a welcoming classroom environment, increase learning, improve attendance, and reduce test anxiety (Banas, Dunbar, Rodriguez, & Liu, 2011). Though students should never be the butt of a joke, barbed or personalized humor does occur in college courses (Wanzer, Frymier, Wojtaszczyk, & Smith, 2006).

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