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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

Edsurge

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Five Things You Should Know About Connecting Democracy and the Curriculum

Faculty Focus

As data from the 2020 election show, faculty frequently served as the most significant communicators of everything from voter registration materials to discussions about critical political issues. Multidisciplinary curricular connections to voting are often an under-utilized and under-funded component of the student involvement landscape.

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Five Things You Should Know About Connecting Democracy and the Curriculum

Faculty Focus

As data from the 2020 election show, faculty frequently served as the most significant communicators of everything from voter registration materials to discussions about critical political issues. Multidisciplinary curricular connections to voting are often an under-utilized and under-funded component of the student involvement landscape.