Category: Education
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English Language Center Offers Classes to UT Custodial, Housing and Dining Employees
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Texas Global A new initiative from Texas Global’s English Language Center (ELC) at The University of Texas at Austin seeks not only to help people with communicating in another language but also to develop the foundational emotional and social skills inherent to language learning, which can foster a sense of community and belonging. …
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Grad Student Helping Clients Reclaim Their Identities
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: The ACC Star Rachel Obstfeld has always had an ear for languages, including American Sign Language, which she has been learning since high school. Now a graduate student in speech-language pathology at the University of Texas at Austin, Obstfeld, 25, said her American Sign Language classes were her first introduction to…
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Teaching & Learning Champions: Meet James Burleson
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: TLED Blog Teaching & Learning Champions are faculty and staff who contribute to student learning (Guided Pathways Essential Practice #4). We share their stories to celebrate their dedication to instructional excellence & innovation in a series of spotlight articles. #ACCExcellence “Education has from the very beginning been closely connected with the study of…
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Teaching & Learning Champions: Meet Lisa Marie Coppoletta
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: TLED Blog Teaching & Learning Champions are faculty and staff who contribute to student learning (Guided Pathways Essential Practice #4). We share their stories to celebrate their dedication to instructional excellence & innovation in a series of spotlight articles. #ACCExcellence ‘When the Shark Comes Out, You Better Watch Out’ If you haven’t heard…
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Fulbright Egypt Advisor Balances Academic Rigor and Student Success
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Texas Global When Dr. Thomas J. Connolly was a mechanical engineering student 35 years ago, he remembers his professor saying on the first day of class: “Look to your left; look to your right: One of you will not graduate.” Connolly had arrived as a first-generation college student with limited exposure…
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No GRE, No Problem: Texas’ Graduate Schools See Increase in Enrollment and Diversity
Alexa K. Haverlah Published: Reporting Texas It had been six years since Kendal Wise took the Graduate Record Examination, long enough that her test scores were no longer valid. But she didn’t need to take the standardized test again last year when applying to graduate programs in behavioral analysis. That’s because nearly all graduate schools…
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