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Two Universities Team Up to Stay Alive, But Stop Short of Merging

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Colleges don’t like to think of themselves as businesses, but a growing number these days are facing the harsh reality of falling enrollments and a struggle to make their financial numbers add up. The two universities say that other private colleges have expressed initial interest.

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Teaching Lessons I Learned From Mom

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Dear Mom, My friend and colleague, Jeff Hittenberger, worked with us to launch a new faculty learning community last year. We didn’t have to go further than the daily news to hear of school board meetings, classrooms, grocery stores and libraries being impacted by political polarization in our country.

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7+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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When kids read that America’s $30 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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ChatGPT with My Students

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As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. GPT models are trained on large amounts of text data and are able to generate natural language text that is coherent and grammatically correct. What are some questions I could ask a new friend?

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Using adsorbents to help society

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Adsorption is a common process in our everyday lives,” says Dr Yamil Colón, based at the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. In relation to healthcare, new adsorbents can help with diagnostics and delivery,” explains Yamil. Why is it important to identify new adsorbents? Why is adsorption important?

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Schools Are Seeing More Hate and Bias Incidents. But Educators Are Not Helpless to Address Them.

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They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too.

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15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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