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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). The Teacher’s Gift : Discovering and using your Core Gift to inspire and heal. Vashon Island, WA: Island Press.

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

Faculty Focus

For many university students, participating in an online math course brings about the distressing emotions of a monumental chore. Social learning / human interaction pieces such as discussion forums, social networks, or interviews with experts in the field. Andriotis, 2015) 5. Any task that is conducive to time efficiency.

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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). Rahmat, PsyD, is a core faculty member at Antioch University, where she specializes in compassion-focused pedagogy, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and mindful self-compassion. 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

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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.

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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Educators should familiarize themselves with their institutions policies and report bullying through appropriate channels, such as human resources or faculty grievance committees. Dr. Robert Lucia is a three-time Bradley University graduate, receiving his undergraduate degree in 2008, his masters in 2011, and his doctorate in 2019.

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

GlobalHigherEd

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress.

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