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How Being a Mother and Academic Helped Me Fix Higher Education’s Transfer Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As associate provost at the college, Ill admit I was biased but even two decades of experience in higher education couldnt fully prepare me for her struggle to transfer credits. To make sure that this system does not break again, we will be working with faculty to adjust how we develop the curriculum for new courses.

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Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia

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Since 2013, she has been ranked in the top 20 of Education Weeks Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of the 200 University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling, and in the top 5 voices in Curriculum.

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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

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Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election. Despite the lack of higher education, Gates says his forbears had a certain knack for mathematics. If he had made it, man, that would have been big for our family, Gates says.

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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

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jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. Within this context, we need to think/rethink about the purpose of the syllabus and how we can decolonize it.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Employers Seek ‘Success Skills’ Among Potential Employees: Report

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The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states. The report noted that secondary and postsecondary educational institutions are being challenged to design programs that develop these skills for the future workforce.

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Dr. Carol Geary Schneider

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higher education; it is working with hundreds of colleges and universities and numerous state systems to expand the benefits of liberal education across the entire curriculum, through new integration between the core outlines of liberal education and student learning in their major fields.