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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

If a moral education strikes most faculty as inappropriate at liberal, secular institutions, are there pedagogies that we might use but don’t, to test student knowledge at a deep level or prompt their intellectual, social and moral growth? Deep learning is inherently a difficult and demanding process.

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The F Word

Inside Higher Ed

Provide faculty with the support they need (for example, from instructional designers and educational technologists, to redesign existing courses, create novel learning experiences, or develop online resources to enhance student learning. Empower faculty to create learning communities organized around a theme or a career path.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

My history as a whole told me that I needed to be in a situation where, if I have the opportunity…to help other people realize their dreams without having to go through all that I went through to get there, then I needed to do that.” Higher education is about deep learning,” Thompson says.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Without a well-defined strategy and an understanding of an organization’s strengths and weaknesses and its competition, institutions inevitably squander their resources and energies. Without innovation no organization can thrive. Success requires leaders to learn how to say no. Adapt or die. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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The Power of Relationships in Undergraduate Education

Inside Higher Ed

Place more students in first-year seminars, learning communities (including learning-living communities), freshman interest groups, and honors and research cohorts. I don’t know about you, but I am astonished by how resistant most of my students are to the high impact pedagogical practices that promote deep learning.