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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

2014; Agarwal, 2019). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Cook-Sather, A.,

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

However, one other area is especially close to my heart: the plight of small colleges. The Plight of Small Colleges If youve followed my journey, you know that I earned my undergraduate degree from Urbana University, a small private college in Urbana, Ohioa city with a current population of 11,161.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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NYU Puts $1 Billion Into Brooklyn Engineering School

Inside Higher Ed

New York University will invest $1 billion in its Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, adding $400 million to the $600 million it had already pledged to the school. NYU has invested heavily in the engineering school since essentially acquiring it in a 2014 merger with Polytechnic University. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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HBCU Scholars Program Celebrates 10 Years with 2024 Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students from 77 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are set to participate as HBCU Scholars in the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

2014; Agarwal, 2019). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Cook-Sather, A.,

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.