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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

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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Canada at a crossroads: transforming recruitment practices in India

The PIE News

The recent investigation by India’s Enforcement Directorate, which linked alleged identified partners of Canadian colleges to human trafficking networks, adds to the mounting challenges facing the sector, coming hot on the heels of a series of significant immigration policy restrictions announced since late 2023.

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The Potential of AI and ChatGPT: Empowering Learning and Communication in the Digital Age 

Faculty Focus

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). ChatGPT can serve as a virtual tutor, providing immediate and on-demand support to students.

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Using the Power of E-Portfolios to Enhance Student Engagement

Faculty Focus

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Benefits of Enhancing Student Engagement Through E-Portfolios Ownership and Autonomy: E-portfolios empower students to take ownership of their learning.

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President Jones, Dolly Parton and the magic of ‘traditioned innovation’

University Business

Interdisciplinary learning and experiential learning are high priorities on campus as technology rapidly changes the modern workforce. Built with a 60,000-square-foot simulation lab, school leaders will learn how to incorporate technology into stemming the countrys worsening physician shortage.