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Meet the Authors of New Titles in the Major Problems Anthology Series

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cengage authors dedicate themselves to producing high-quality content, while also prioritizing a functional learning experience for students, equipping them with background information and tools necessary to analyze the important topics covered in their courses. history, world history and western civilization.

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NJIT Achieves HSI Status and Works to Increase Its Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Council raises funds and provides scholarships to Latinx students, and, on September 19, as part of NJIT’s kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month, the Council, along with NJIT president Dr. Teik C. These are opportunities to celebrate the rich history, culture and the people from underrepresented communities.”

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Futuristic Scholar Looks to Change the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Agloro jokes that few of her friends know exactly what she does on a day-to-day basis because she works in so many fields, ranging from the creation of a video game that will preserve the cultural experiences and histories of Latinx immigrants in the Pacific islands to working with reproductive justice and technology for indigenous midwives.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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Defining Quality Learning at Cengage

Today's Learner

It informs every decision we make as we design learning content—what topics to cover in a textbook, what activities and assessments learners will complete and how all of those elements are sequenced. history course need to analyze how the provisions of the First and Fourth Amendments affect their everyday lives in the United States.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Provide more experiential learning opportunities. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

WCET Frontiers

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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