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English-Learning Program at UVA Helps International Students, Faculty Gain Confidence
The VISAS program is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, scholars, faculty, staff, employees and family members of the University of Virginia community who want to practice their language literacy or adjust to teaching in the United States through demonstrations, discussions and during office hours.
September 24, 2019
News Roundup
Saint Augustine’s University Professor Wins National Award
Saint Augustine’s University professor Erin L. Berry-McCrea was recently awarded the 2018 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award. The award supports early career teachers of color who are working to build accomplished teaching careers in literacy education, according to NCTE. Berry-McCrea will be recognized during the 2019 […]
October 1, 2018
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Learning from ‘Absentee’ Mentors
Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker began her trajectory into education believing she wanted to be a journalist. She enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a journalism major but discovered that the field was not her calling.
September 26, 2018
Military
Navy Veteran Finds Career in Higher Education
Dr. Georgina Dodge, who is associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at Bucknell University, likes to say that she was “born and raised in the Air Force.”
September 11, 2018
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Report: Multilingual Students Made ‘Remarkable’ Progress
A new report based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress challenges a widespread perception that multilingual students in the United States consistently perform poorly, muster only marginal academic progress and are being failed by school systems.
June 23, 2018
African-American
Academics Remember Renowned Literary Scholar Marcellus Blount
Former students and professional colleagues are mourning the death of Dr. Marcellus Blount, a well-known scholar of African-American literary and cultural studies who taught at Columbia University since 1985.
May 7, 2018
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Professor Interrogates the World With Students
Growing up, Dr. McKinley E. Melton was fascinated by language, learning, literature and the articulation of ideas, but wasn’t sure what career path to pursue that matched those curiosities. It wasn’t until his time as an undergraduate at Duke University that he became interested in “diversifying the academy.”
March 21, 2018
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