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It is usually about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through the semester when we (and our students) start to feel a little grumpier. 2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., Consequently, we may be a bit more unwilling or unable to be empathetic to the issues that arise for our students. Raimondi, 2019).
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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Student Aid. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. The first semester we supported 40 students.
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It is usually about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through the semester when we (and our students) start to feel a little grumpier. 2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., Consequently, we may be a bit more unwilling or unable to be empathetic to the issues that arise for our students. Raimondi, 2019).
Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. Brown, 2011, para.
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Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.
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In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.
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