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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community

Faculty Focus

One of the practices I have employed in most of my classes during the past several years is “the appreciative close,” which is an offshoot of “the appreciative pause ” recommended by Stephen Brookfield (Brookfield, 2015, pp.95-96). Design and Facilitation. Goodman, & K. Joshi, eds. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3 rd ed.

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

Faculty Focus

Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). For instance, rigid attendance or late-work penalties can be replaced with policies such as “grace days,” where students can submit work late without penalty. Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them.

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The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity

Faculty Focus

This mismatch between expectation and experience can be attributed to the current limitations of AI in simulating truly human-like interactions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Others reported that the AI occasionally misunderstood the conversational tone, especially when asked personal questions. The Modern Language Journal , 2010, pp.

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Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

The Guardian - Higher Education

ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Continue reading.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Corbett, LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe, 8 December 2015). Note that this report was partially derived out of written and oral evidence provided to the Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords (December 2015-March 2016), some of which is flagged below. University Alliance – Written evidence (4 December 2015).