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Teaching Students, Not Subjects

Faculty Focus

Prior to the relatively recent development of formal education in human history, students learned important lessons not in classrooms, but from stories told by elders. For instance, all competitors in memory competitions use the exact same method to remember random digits: they create a story out of the numbers (Carey, 2014).

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. Theotis Robinson Jr. Robinson would soon join their ranks.

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Undergraduate institutions of doctoral recipients

Higher Ed Data Stories

Or, the institution in the Middle Atlantic states sending the most students to a doctorate in History (Columbia.) For some, it could be 2014; for others, 2000. If you want to take a stab at doing it, be my guest.

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Staying Woke for A Cause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Robinson, a foundational figure in University of Tennessee history, grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he and his mother, Alma, would listen to the radio, discussing historic elections and admiring the courage of civil rights leaders. The rest is history. Theotis Robinson Jr. Robinson would soon join their ranks.

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Can Application Modernization Keep Higher Ed Cyberattackers at Bay?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In 2014, a vulnerability was discovered in a critical security library used by a massive number of systems worldwide. The Heartbleed Bug exploited a lack of bounds checking in the Transport Layer Security heartbeat protocol, and when an exploit was published in April 2014, millions of systems were immediately vulnerable.

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

In 1975, I designed my own major in College Administration, combining courses in business, history/political science, and psychology. After being acquired by Franklin College in 2014, it closed its doors in May 2020 due to challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and years of low enrollment.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Benefits: Accessibility and Faculty Efficiency AI enhances accessibility, a cornerstone of community college missions. Basic Books.