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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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility.

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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. Education empowers them to understand their experiences and identify opportunities for reform, as seen with UC Berkeleys Underground Scholars Initiative.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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How can we access the non-economic benefits of the Humanities?

HEPI

In current discussions of the value of humanities research, two concerns come across most strongly: the extent to which humanities research creates skills, and the extent to which humanities research is financially lucrative for individuals, the government and the economy. The second is rediscovery.

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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. Founded in 2006, AABHE empowers Black educators, administrators, and scholars through leadership development, networking opportunities, and advocacy for inclusive policies.

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University of New Haven announces Saudi Arabia campus

The PIE News

The announcement was made at the second annual Human Capability Initiative gathering in Riyadh earlier this month, hosted by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Prime Minister, and the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s human capability development program.

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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. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility.

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