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Student Employment: The Next High-Impact Practice
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Marianna Savoca; Kelli K. Smith; Simran Kaur – Assessment Update, 2024
How do we scale student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) on campuses where there is limited supply? Student employment, not an official HIP yet, has potential to fill this gap. This article describes approaches taken by two campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system to transform work-study/student employment into…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Employment, Educational Change, Universities
Identity and National Identity
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Liu, Qiang; Turner, David – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
This article reviews the history of international mobility of students from China to other countries over the century and a half from 1870 to the present day. Different motivations, goals, courses, and knowledge are considered, together with how the purposes of individuals have matched national policy. Implications for the future development in a…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Self Concept, Nationalism
Increasing Computational Protein Design Literacy through Cohort-Based Learning for Undergraduate Students
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Can HEA Reauthorization Help Close America's Skills Gap?
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Craig, Ryan – Progressive Policy Institute, 2019
House Democrats yesterday introduced major legislation to reauthorize the landmark Higher Education Act. Although reauthorization is long overdue, the new legislation, called the College Affordability Act, proposes mainly marginal improvements to a broken higher education financing system. Moreover, it doesn't do enough to help people who don't go…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Job Skills
Increasing Geriatric Social Work Content through University/Community Partnerships
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McCaslin, Rosemary; Barnstable, Cherie Lynn – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
Since their inception, social work education programs have operated in partnership with community agencies, as both field sites and foci for research. However, surprisingly little has been written on models of university/community partnerships in social work or the role of agencies in shaping curricula. This study analyzed the outcome reports of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Work Study Programs, Geriatrics, Public Agencies