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Direct linkGloria Castrillon; Kirti Menon – Perspectives in Education, 2025
There has been an intense focus on the '21st century skills' and on universities developing graduate attributes through teaching, learning and innovative curricula. One example is resilience, frequently cited as desirable, especially during and post the COVID-19 pandemic. Resilience gained momentum across a number of fields, such as development…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Universities, College Role, Resilience (Psychology)
Daniel R. Porterfield – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
We live in an era of escalating, tech-fueled change. Our jobs and the skills we need to work and thrive are constantly evolving, and those who can't keep up risk falling behind. That's where college comes in. In "Mindset Matters," Daniel R. Porterfield advances a powerful new argument about the value of residential undergraduate…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Self Efficacy
Jeff Frank – About Campus, 2024
By focusing on the role that "in loco parentis" plays on college campuses, according to the author, we are offered a new angle of vision, one that may break us out of simplistic understandings of campus life in our time. In the 1960s, college students fought for free speech and against in loco parentis. Students did not want their…
Descriptors: College Environment, Freedom of Speech, Student Rights, Student College Relationship
Learning and Teaching to Empower Students: Thematic Peer Group Report. Learning & Teaching Paper #24
Stephen Rutherford, Editor; Nigel Francis, Editor; Helene Peterbauer, Editor – European University Association, 2025
Societal expectations are rising for higher education to help learners develop into engaged, responsible and resilient citizens of the world. Against this backdrop, the 2024 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group 'Learning and teaching to empower students' explored a crucial prerequisite for cultivating these qualities in graduates: an…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Higher Education, Student Centered Learning, Power Structure
