Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

He was arguably one of this generation’s most astute legal minds. But Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., was more than that. Like Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Oliver W. Hill Sr., Ogletree used his legal prowess to significantly advance the cause of Black Americans. Ogletree—who was affectionately known as “Tree”—died on Friday, after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Steve Keating

AUGUST 6, 2023

So why the heck am I writing about a positive attitude in a leadership blog? Why am I not staying on topic here and talking about leading people? Why go all Pollyanna and say everything will be better just by staying positive. Well here’s why. Because every single aspect of your life WILL IN FACT be better if you CHOOSE to have a positive attitude.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

In the summer of 2020 during the time of painted sidewalks, murals, along with street and building renamings, some of the easily convinced proclaimed the period of what seemed to be a racial reckoning as a start. Institutions and organizations began making promises that walked hand-in-hand with the black boxes posted on social media by celebrities. Everyone seemed to be in a place of introspection, unlearning/relearning, and beginning their anti-racist journeys toward co-conspiratorship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

Julia Carboni Julia Carboni has been named director of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, a public policy-minded collaboration between Washington State University and the University of Washington. Carboni holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Northern Arizona University as well as an MPA and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Arizona.

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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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