…full-time, attend school on a part-time basis, have children, and must take care of relatives while pursuing their academic goals. Some come to class with less-than-optimal academic preparedness due to…
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…the role that academic leaders need to play to foster a true, comprehensive, systemic shift in paradigms. The term paradigm shift was originally used by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure…
…(Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights 2023), we wish to further shed light on an often underutilized area in the quest for increased student participation: the academic curriculum. Multidisciplinary curricular…
…Atlantic University. His latest book is Academic Leadership Day by Day: Small Steps That Lead to Great Success (Jossey-Bass, 2011). Excerpted from “The Perception Problem.” Academic Leader, 26.4 (2010): 1-2….
…opportunities provided to those who are more academically talented than others. It’s intended to connote a sense of fairness, a feeling that not every student should have the same classroom…
…journals, books, conference presentations, video/audio)? What subscriptions to academic databases are available? It is important for student-scholars to be fully aware of the search tools available in their academic disciplines….
…far removed from “Composition 101.” Even instructors who work on writing skills find it challenging to maintain momentum when their own academic content inevitably requires attention. Moreover, students, many of…
