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Career Readiness

Skills for Students Living in the 21st Century

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen evaluating job preparedness in recent college graduates, both students and employers see room for improvement. According to a recent Cengage Group study, in 2023 more than half of employers (53%)...

Today's Learner

4 Tips for Mentoring Minority Students

Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. For many minority students, attending college is the culmination of...

Career Readiness

Is College Worth It? One Student Weighs In

With the rising cost of tuition and substantial time commitment college requires, students need to feel like their investment is worthwhile. According to our study, nearly 90 percent of students cited getting...

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4 Tips to Engage with Non-Majors in Your Courses

Janet Mizrahi is a Continuing Lecturer in the UCSB Writing Program, where she has taught journalism, science writing, and business/professional writing since 1999. She also blogs for BizComBuzz. As a writing instructor on...

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Great Teachers Make All the Difference [VIDEO]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat you do every day as an educator really makes an impact in your students’ lives. But have you ever wondered if your students remember you? Did lending your ear get...

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How Passionate Teaching Can Inspire Students

Understand Where Passion Starts Without a passion for learning, students can lose focus and interest in completing your course—or worse, their education. A 2009 study by Public Agenda found that 45 percent...

Teaching Trends

Corequisite Courses: What Instructors Should Know

Across two- and four-year institutions, remedial courses have long been a staple in helping underprepared students ramp up. However, consistently disappointing results have prompted higher education leaders to explore alternatives. Considering only...

Women in Higher Education

The Secret(s) to Managing Challenging Student Behaviors

Shawn Orr is Director of the Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence, and a faculty member in the Communication Studies Department at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. If you’ve been teaching...

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