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

Faculty Focus

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Such practices can lead to mistrust between students and faculty, harming the educational relationship.

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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures

Faculty Focus

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014). Bradbury, N.

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TheDream.US Celebrates a Decade of Transforming Immigrant Students' Lives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since its founding in 2014, the organization has provided more than 11,000 college scholarships to undocumented students attending nearly 80 partner colleges in 20 states and Washington, D.C. Gaby Pacheco, the organization's President and CEO, embodies the impact of educational opportunity. Most of TheDream.US When TheDream.US

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

So, educators must continue to shift their thinking and go back to the basics to deliver their online course content in a way that creates a direct relationship with their students (Meyer, 2014). After working for a Fortune 500 company in advertising for over two decades, he began his higher education teaching career 15 years ago.He

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 165: Exploring the Future of Technology in Education with John Sowash

Leader of Learning

Episode 165 of the Leader of Learning Podcast features John Sowash, an expert in all things Chromebooks, Google apps, and Google Workspace for Education live from the FETC conference in Orlando, Florida. He began his educational journey as a high school science teacher exploring the use of Google Docs and Wikis with ninth grade students.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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The Family Business Blueprint Strategy, Support, and Succession

Insight Into Diversity

The program assists family businesses with integrating cuttingedge technologies such as AI, and facilitates networking opportunities with influential figures in their field. Its manufacturing, its agriculture, its technology, its banking; there are family enterprises in every industry you can think of, Lurey says.