Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation is a compelling book about leadership, service, and the importance of mentorship/sponsorship within the academy. The book is edited by Drs. Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams. And its publication by Wayne State University Press earlier this month comes right on time, as a new academic school year gets underway.

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Counseling Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One counselor shares his painful story of losing a supervisee to suicide and offers advice on how to cope after traumatic loss. The post Coping with the loss of a supervisee to suicide appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Twenty-two years on, the memories don’t come quite as readily as they once did for Dr. Lynne Brown. But some aspects of 9/11 are indelible. Brown, who was vice president of government relations and public affairs for New York University (NYU) on that day, climbed to the roof of Bobst Library when she heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Isabel Wilkerson’s Powerful Address on America’s Caste System Opens the 2023 COE Annual Conference September 11, 2023 — by Maura Casey Isabel Wilkerson’s keynote at COE’s 2023 Annual Conference addressed America’s caste system, emphasizing collective responsibility for change and historical parallels. Author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson brought her moral clarity and willingness to speak hard truths to the opening plenary session of the 202

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Aimee Turner Aimee Turner has been named vice president for finance and treasurer at the University of Delaware. She served as chief financial officer of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Turner earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Frostburg State University in Maryland.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs How Change Leadership Propelled University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Journey to Equity Change leadership acts as a vital bridge between intent and action. What does effective change leadership look like in practice? In this post, we’ll take you inside an initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to illustrate how their Associate Vice Chancellor Dr.

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Student Loan Planner

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Key Takeaways: Standard Insurance Company, a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., is a “Big 5” insurance carrier. This grouping of disability insurance companies is responsible for underwriting the majority of own-occupation disability insurance policies. This specialty-specific coverage is essential for doctors, dentists and other high-income professionals.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs Adult learners’ application behavior is changing—here’s how Insights from our new survey of 3,800+ graduate and adult learners As the demographics of prospective graduate students and adult learners change, so do students’ application preferences and behaviors. To better understand how students are choosing which programs to apply to—and ensure our partners are equipped to meet their needs—our Adult Learner Recruitment team recently surveyed more than 3,800 prospective graduate, online, an

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Welcome back Blue Jays, for another academic year at Hopkins! We hope you all are having a great start to the semester and have reunited with or are newly finding the people who make you feel your best. We are excited to be back for another semester of Dear Tyler and Jay and to answer your questions about all things related to interpersonal relationships, friendships, love, dating, and more.

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