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The Silent Crisis: Bullying Among Nurse Educators in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

Bullying in nursing is a well-documented issue, but less attention has been given to the experiences of nurse educators who face hostility within academic institutions. These hostile work environments have profound consequences, leading many talented educators to leave academia entirely or return to clinical practice.

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Forecasting the future of online education

The PIE News

When Al Tarzi founded Nexford University in 2019, he was an entrepreneur in an unfamiliar sector with a vision of making international higher education more affordable, more accessible and more aligned with the workplace. Today, it offers US-accredited online degrees to over 5,000 students in more than 100 countries.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Student success is teacher success. When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible.

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Historic Black Church Eliminates Student Debt for SAU Seniors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This act of grace by Alfred Street Baptist Church is nothing short of transformative for our students and our institution," said SAU Interim President Dr. Marcus H. The university had initially informed the entire graduating class that students with unpaid tuition balances could not participate in the commencement ceremony.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. A landing page for student-facing websites at University of Michigan and Amherst College, just to name a few. A Dr. Terrell L. Her opening lines were perennial: Its everywhere.

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

Faculty Focus

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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