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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011).

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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. The software also allows for information generated to be translated into various languages, which is critical for our institution as we have over 60 countries represented within our student body.

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JAMES T. OVERTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware. Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University.

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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brooks continued his exploration of the vast African diaspora in 2011, alongside other internationally known scholars, as the general editor of the 1,600-page African American Almanac (Cengage Gale, 2011). Brooks takes pride in his profession, telling unheard stories and promoting the humanity and dignity of others’ lives. “If

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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

Fernsten and Reda (2011) claim examining classroom practices that help challenge negative writer identity, especially in relation to formal academic discourses, may create greater student confidence to move through the multiple literacy tasks needed for academic research writing. American Journal of Educational Research. 2015; 3(6):736-741.

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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. But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities.

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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. What the exhibition and symposium will do — and what we do in the Mass Incarceration Lab — is humanize this phenomenon. The entire ordeal has prompted national debates about racial injustice and the death penalty.