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Academic Exchange
January 2001
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Education
Reform
Service-Learning: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies
for Success
Service-learning has been an area of extreme interest
and debate in higher education.
The idea of encouraging and giving students credit
for Ôcommunity serviceÕ has some institutions showing
concern and wondering just how this concept will
fit into their current institutions
mission and curriculum, not to mention whether
or not this idea of service-learning connects learning
with the overall outcome associated with a studentÕs
particular area of study. full
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Current Trends
Minority Women and Higher Education
In 1973, the U.S. Congress passed the Title IX
Education Amendments to the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, specifically extending
the prohibition of sexually discriminatory practices
to the field of education. Since then, women of
all ethnic backgrounds have made
tremendous strides both in American higher
education and in American society. As Anne Bryant
(1995), executive director of the American Association
of University Women described it,
the proportion of women physicians
rose from 7.6% to 16.9% from 1970 to 1990. full
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Academic Adjustment
Roles of a Teacher
Serving as a teaching assistant is a common role
for many English graduate students,
and, beginning this semester, I was
ready to accept this as part my educational journey.
Despite this awareness, as I looked ahead to beginning
graduate school, I was more focused on my own
education than on the thought of
teaching. My mind was filled with ideas
for courses I would take and fears of intellectual
inadequacy, rather than with lesson plans or teaching
strategies. full
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