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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. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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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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UAE showcases HE offering to attract Chinese students

The PIE News

A delegation of UAE-based international education and political leaders attended the China International Education Exhibition Tour (CIEET) in Beijing earlier this month as part of an initiative to attract Chinese students to their institutions.

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Explained: reporting international student ‘no-shows’ in the big four

The PIE News

The four biggest destinations for international education the US , the UK , Canada and Australia have traditionally been the most popular places students flock to for their education. Also known as the ‘big four’, each of these destinations welcome hundreds of thousands of international students every year.

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The Ivory Tower’s Blindside: Reclaiming the Scholarly Value of College Athletics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is not a critique of sports journalism or of basic compliance studies, but rather a lament that the rich intellectual soil of athletics has too often been left fallow by scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as if to study it seriously would be to debase the sanctity of higher learning itself. But athletics is no outsider.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

Faculty Focus

Students who opt for e-learning likely prefer it for the flexibility it affords, but that doesnt mean they want to miss out on engaging with their classmates or instructor in a meaningful way. Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward.

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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. In this article, we will examine ability/disability as a characteristic of human diversity in education as illustrated by Cushner et al. Be open and welcome student questions.