Tag: Diverse Conversations
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Diverse Conversations: Training Tomorrow’s Educators
It’s an unavoidable reality that today’s students will be tomorrow’s educators. The professors involved in teacher training initiatives and teacher education programs today are the ones ... -
Diverse Conversations: Mentoring Minority Faculty
Minority faculty find themselves at a huge disadvantage at institutions controlled by people of European descent. To discuss some of the ways in which institutions can ... -
Diverse Conversations: Online Universities and Underserved Student Populations
College attendance has become a necessity for entry into the contemporary workforce. This shift is a direct result of President Obama’s goal of having the largest ... -
Diverse Conversations: Staying Afloat in Financially Turbulent Times
In these increasingly uncertain times, colleges and universities are forced to come up with innovative ways to deal with funding cutbacks and revenue shortfalls. In this ... -
Diverse Conversations: Learning to Lead
Many administrators in higher education rise from the faculty. However, when a faculty member is promoted to an administrative position, becoming a director, department chair, or ... -
Diverse Conversations: Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders
Colleges and universities all over the United States play an integral role in shaping tomorrow’s leaders. At Saint Leo University they take this charge to heart, ... -
Diverse Conversations: The Failure of Higher Education
Growing up, many Americans are told that education is the doorway to happiness and a way to break the cycle of poverty and anti-intellectualism that pervades ... -
Diverse Conversations: Community Colleges, the Backbone of American Higher Education
Every since their inception, community colleges have always been viewed as the step children of higher education. Sure, anyone with a brain knows how significant they ... -
Diverse Conversations: College Life, Military Veterans, and Mental Illness
Thousands of veterans are returning home each month and transitioning back to civilian life. For many, this includes going back to college or taking college courses. ... -
Diverse Conversations: MOOCs for University Administration
By Matthew Lynch Massive Open Online Courses are often associated with topics that are normally taught within college classrooms and by college faculty. The untapped potential ...
