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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. Physical accessibility.

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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served. Other fellows expressed that “too much focus is placed on career preparation, missing opportunities for learning and personal development.”

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

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You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. The text of your syllabus and course design.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Another way of asking the question is, “Do you talk to them about this?” This is the humdinger.

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What a Cool Syllabus…But is It Accessible?

Faculty Focus

I was ecstatic to hear this question! A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus. Let’s return to the question posed by all my colleagues: “Is the document accessible?” So, to go back to the initial question of, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?”

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