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University of Utah Prison Education Project Admits First Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

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Study: Third-Grade Retention Has Positive Effects for Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holding students back a year may have its benefits, according to a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Opponents of the practice have argued that grade retention is punitive and can harm students socially and emotionally, Hwang said. As of 2019, 18 U.S.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Joyce E.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We use the term and notion of resegregation in special education to describe the overrepresentation of Students of Color in special education, an issue that continues to persist today. After all, special education was created, in part, for this intended purpose. Thus, our use of the term resegregation is intentional.

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Your ‘Nowhere’ is my ‘Somewhere’

Supporting Student Success

By Tricia Seifert , Associate Professor of Adult & Higher Education at Montana State University. Everyone had a story that connected them to rural students. This was the start to the excellent Rural Student Success Unconference hosted by the University of Georgia, March 19-20, 2021. ” Students’ Strengths.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

But there are times in which the tables change and crisis emerges, something happens on your campus, something happens to a faculty member, something happens to a student, the world keeps spinning, and you can't stop. Sometimes you'll be able to take time off. You have to spin with it."

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Capabilities Approach & open education

Catherine Cronin

Gabi is currently completing PhD research exploring engagement in online higher education by students who are refugees and asylum seekers, using the lens of the Capability Approach. Czerniewicz, 2016 ; Bali et al., Beetham, 2016 ). Agency is a third key consideration in critical approaches to open.