Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Northwestern University’s African American studies department will be renamed the Department of Black Studies. The change will become official in the next few months, pending final trustee approval. The department – housed in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences – is making the change to better reflect the range of its scholarship and teaching, according to the formal name change proposal.

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Counseling Today

MAY 12, 2023

Counseling can help adults with bullying behaviors learn to change how they relate to others and accept responsibility for their actions. The post Working with adults who bully appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

In recent years, applicants and matriculants to U.S. medical schools have increasingly come from households with higher incomes, according to a Yale-led study. The findings of the study – published May 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) – show disparities in access to medical education and could have negative impacts on patient care, according to researchers.

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Scholarship America

MAY 12, 2023

As the world of higher education faces an uncertain future, there are two things we know for sure: education will be a key to our recovery, and students will need our support more than ever as they return to school. Support for students can take many forms; starting a scholarship program can ensure you have an impact now, and well into the future. Getting started can be a challenge – but partnering with an experienced nonprofit like Scholarship America ensures you the simplest setup, the greates

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The low number of historically underrepresented men of color (HUMOC) in health care professions has been declared a national crisis by The Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP). The numbers indicate a lack of diversity that will negatively impact public health, education, economic stability, and the availability and quality of healthcare for all U.S. communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Roxbury Community College is celebrating its 50th anniversary over three days this weekend, GBH News reported. The event includes film screenings, hip-hop performances, and the RCC commencement ceremony. Haqikah Greaves, who completed her studies at RCC while pregnant with her first child, is the commencement speaker. RCC is also celebrating the 50th year of the hip-hop genre, with performances from hip-hop artists Edo.G and Red Shaydez.

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Catherine Cronin

MAY 12, 2023

by Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz In a few months, all being well, we will be preparing to launch the book H i gher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures (HE4Good). This open access book, a collection of work by over 70 authors in 18 countries, offers ways of thinking, conceptualising and creating possibilities for (re)making higher education, focusing on futures that foreground inclusion, equity, social justice, care and sustainability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Kendra Hall-Kenyon Kendra Hall-Kenyon has been named dean of the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Hall-Kenyon, who served as interim dean, earned a bachelor’s degree in family science from Brigham Young University and a master’s and Ph.D. in human development from Columbia University.

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