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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. Yet its uncommon to find college basic needs advocates calling for reforms.

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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The goal is for educators and students to collaborate in creating a classroom environment that is conducive to learning for all. What must also be considered are the messages to and ramifications on Black students who are forced to endure such harmful environments. Knowledge is power. Compassionate pedagogy cannot operate in silence.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

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To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. These skills are vital for creating environments where students feel understood and valued. A passionate advocate for education, Dr. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Navigating Accessibility and Humanizing EdTech: Upcoming WCET Events You Won’t Want to Miss

WCET Frontiers

Its important and challenging to ensure compliance while still balancing an engaging learning environment. Thats why were excited to offer three timely events to help higher education leaders navigate these evolving requirements and explore strategies to humanize educational technology.

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The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community

Faculty Focus

Part of the value of this reminder is to help students recognize that our goal for the course is not limited to academic learning but that we bring our whole selves into the classroom and our way of relating to each other should be a fully human one rather than merely instructional discourse. Schoem et al. Bell et al. Faculty Focus.

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Fierce Advocate for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success. “I’m a great facilitator. That’s one of my top leadership skills. With the counseling skills, I’m able to have empathy and understand where people are and get them where I need them to be.”

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AI in Community Colleges: Navigating a Human-Centered Future in the Shadow of AB 2370

Faculty Focus

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2