August, 2019

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Part II: Dr. B. Hibbs “The Stressed Years of Their Lives” on how to support college students

Welltrack Connect Blog

4 min read College counseling centers are experiencing a dramatic rise in student demand for mental health services. This is part two of our interview with co-author, Dr. B. Janet Hibbs, where she shares ways parents, counseling centers, and community providers can support college students. The post Part II: Dr. B. Hibbs “The Stressed Years of Their Lives” on how to support college students appeared first on Welltrack Connect Blog.

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Get Rejected on a Regular Basis

Clair Kamp Dush

As an interdisciplinary researcher and family demographer, I have been frustrated by the lack of data to answer some of what I believe are the more important research questions. As a tenure-track faculty member at a research intensive university, my (federal) grantsmanship expectations are high if I want to get promoted to full, or to have the money to get resources for my grad students and myself.

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National Immunization Awareness Month

Lewermark Blog

Every year, preventable diseases strike thousands of people in the U.S., including international students. National Immunization Awareness Month is a campaign held each August to highlight the importance of vaccinations and how they can prevent certain, often highly contagious diseases. For international students, receiving certain immunizations should be an utmost priority.

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Social Media – Best Practices

Pamela Hunnisett

This is my 2nd post for the UofC Continuing Ed course – BMC 312 Social Media Essentials. This assignment requires us to “identify 2 specific learnings you have had about social media content best practices.” These past few weeks have been interesting as I am taking in so much info regarding Social Media – realizing […].

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Resources for DACA and Undocumented Students

MCC Academic Advisement Resources

Resources for DACA and Undocumented Students News Release August 22, 2019 Arizona Board of Regents Approves Update to Non-Resident Tuition Rate for Arizona High School Graduates Tuition Policy Click to access ABOR%20Approves%20Update%20to%20Tuition%20Policy%20to%20Expand%20Access.v2docx.pdf August 22, 2019, Rachel Leingang, Arizona Republic Undocumented Arizona high school graduates will get tuition break at state universities Each year about 2,000 … Continue reading Resources for DACA and

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Recommendations for Interviewing Job Candidates

Clair Kamp Dush

Photographs of a Brown University community member sharing their experience with racial microaggressions and microaffirmations. [link] [link]. I teach a PhD Job Market course on a biennial schedule, and we always talk about ways to combat gender and race microaggressions during interviewing. Over the past year or so, it has also come up in my family development course when we discuss the motherhood penalty , and in talks I gave to the Fisher Women in Business organization at Ohio State’s F