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Career Talk: The Heart of Teaching

Today's Learner

In college, students asked me to proofread their essays, and I shared successful tips on how to study and organize their time. Lacking financial means, I became a work-study student and received scholarships and loans to pay my tuition. For Ann Snell, teaching is her true passion Going to college was not always on my bucket list.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

year prison sentence, Cordero Holmes could not see his future as a great dad, Honors College student, or recipient of the MLK Living the Dream Award for community service in his old neighborhood. Looking back seven years later, Holmes says the Incarcerated Reentry Program (IRE) from Rio Salado College gave him a new life map.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Inside Higher Ed

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. Even if we start looking at 2013 compared to 2020, the decline in library staffing appears large.

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Keystone makes athlete placement acquisitions

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The international education organisation has acquired two European-based companies that will add to its sports division that connects international student-athletes with US colleges. ” Keystone Sports also previously acquired European student-placement agencies including CSUSA, Sport-Scholarships and AGM Sports. .

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Texas consortium of 44 colleges strikes deal with Elsevier

Inside Higher Ed

colleges face strained library budgets, many seek creative ways to lower costs and preserve access to scholarly content. That shared goal brought 44 colleges in Texas together to negotiate a deal with Elsevier, the behemoth publisher of over 2,500 scientific journals, including The Lancet and Cell. Image: As pandemic-weary U.S.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Efforts to improve college access and support for foster youth have spurred new laws in multiple states, with legislators from both major parties heeding calls to do more for a group of students often without family to call on for help. ” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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My lived experience with a disability and my professional positionality in disability scholarship and education systems is driving my efforts. 10) and to accept autism as a positive aspect of one’s identity (Berger, 2013). American Psychiatric Association (2013). Teachers College Record, 107 (3), 453-474. References.

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