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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community

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This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 4, 2018 © Magna Publications. Fox (2018) suggests inviting students to adopt a posture of gratitude to promote a positive learning environment. Gabriel (2018) advocates the use of “validation practices” to foster a community of learners. Accessed on May 30, 2018.

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Curtin University officially launches branch campus in Sri Lanka

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After establishing similar facilities in Singapore, Malaysia, the UAE, and Mauritius, Curtin University Colombo is the institution’s fifth global campus. According to Hayne, 2,500 Sri Lankan students have graduated from Curtin University since the early 2000s.

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

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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. checklists, calendars, exit polls, or pulse check quizzes.)

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes.

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Cultivating Tomorrow’s HBCU Leaders: The H.E.L.F. Foundation Effect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

nearly a decade ago, they had no idea that they would become the vanguard in leading and supporting a new generation of leadership within historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). “The idea was simply to create a space for individuals who were sincerely interested in committing their vocation and uplift to HBCUs.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

25, Moorea Distinguished Professor of Urban Education at The Ohio State University (OSU) and executive director of the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Centerwas awarded the Order of the Palmetto South Carolinas highest civilian honor established in 1971. since 2018. On Saturday, Jan. With a budget of approximately $1.8

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. She worked her way through the ranks as a professor, eventually landing at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and then an internship opportunity in the Office of the Provost came her way.

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