Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Dr. Maureen Ruby According to the Stanford Center on Longevity, The hundred year life is here. And were not ready. The Center identified 10 principles to guide working through the challenges of longevity and capitalize on the opportunities. As a soon-to-be septuagenarian, current university faculty member and educational researcher, the guiding principle learn throughout life resonates with me.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

MARCH 30, 2025

I rarely research anything without a partner. Often more than one. And this has been the case for a very long time. ( Of course I do occasionally research partner-less, but understand that this is not my preferred way to work.) My research partnerships are long-term and involve much more than doing projects. A couple of partnerships started with a small research project, something that was ‘academic citizenship’ with no external funding involved, and then grew organically after that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2025

Smithsonian Secretary Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III The Smithsonian Institution is navigating a new executive order from the White House that directs Vice President J.D. Vance to work with the museum's Board of Regents on "issues related to content," according to an internal memo obtained by Diverse. In a message to staff sent Friday morning, Smithsonian Secretary Dr.

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Steve Keating

MARCH 30, 2025

Most organizations and businesses have no idea who their most expensive employee is. They believe, usually mistakenly, that their most expensive employee is the person they pay the most. Thats seldom even close to true. Their most expensive employee is not the highest paid; it is the least engaged. Disengaged people do the bare minimum, often just enough to prevent themselves from being fired.

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Retention Mentoring Communication Facilitation 68

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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