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

Faculty Focus

Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Hammond, Z.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On an unseasonably warm November weekend, people gathered on campus for a record clearing and expungement clinic organized by the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation. That effort and others like it are essential services for basic needs in college. Yet its uncommon to find college basic needs advocates calling for reforms.

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Empowering Black Scholars in STEM: The Urgency of Mentorship and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr. Eddie Red, delivered a welcoming message, expressing his aspiration to one day be featured on the wall, as he, like many of us present, is destined for a greater purpose.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is this quality experience that learners courting and attending our community colleges expect to receive, and failure to provide will lead to continuous declines in enrollment and confidence in higher education. These historical progressions made the relationship between college access and inclusiveness symbiotic.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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The Evolution of the Humanities

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This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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

Faculty Focus

Course Design: Scaffold, Support, and Empower A well-designed course sets the stage for trust by providing clarity, flexibility, and opportunities for growth. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Teachers College Press. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Hammond, Z.

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