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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Housing scholarship aids underrepresented students

Inside Higher Ed

What’s the need: The Fordham Housing Fund is specifically for students in the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program ( CSTEP ). What it is: The Fordham Housing Fund began in 2011 as a gift from Fordham graduates Kathy and Brian MacLean. Between 30 and 40 students complete applications, Molina says.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Faculty learning communities: Why they’re still a great idea

University Business

Beyond the typical institutional orientation, new faculty FLCs can be designed for eight areas of importance in higher education ( Beane-Katner, 2011, p.93 Beyond the typical institutional orientation, new faculty FLCs can be designed for eight areas of importance in higher education ( Beane-Katner, 2011, p.93

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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. References Alex Monceaux. 2015; 3(6):736-741. 2019, July 17).

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Numbers of African students in China expected to grow as ties increase

The PIE News

. “To Africa, China is not a competitor, not a threat, but rather a constructive partner and an active facilitator” “China is dedicated to work with Africa to make joint contributions for shared benefit not only in the world economy, but also in science, technology, education and sustainable development.

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Higher ed must change or die (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2011, then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop delivered a poignant and passionate memo to all of the company’s employees. If the company did not urgently adapt and reclaim its role as a leader in telecommunications and information technology innovation, it risked losing everything. Nokia was “ standing on a burning platform.”

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