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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. Colleges and universities depend critically on the labor power of all who work in them.

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Unlocking the Value of Circles

NonProfit Quarterly

Experts often overcomplicate lectures with jargon and references that may not be culturally relevant to the people they are trying to teach. Peer support groups share personal experiences with the same condition, providing practical advice on self-care and guidance in navigating the healthcare system.

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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

This course will teach you the specific thought processes and skills to identify and channel your inner strength and power, Feldt says. We do this work and offer this course because you deserve the equal pay, positions, and power of your highest intentions. You already have more power than you might realize. 50 Women Can Change The World.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Creating pathways for educating for economic democracy requires more than curriculum and content. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This proactive, data-driven approach can significantly improve the quality of life for elderly individuals and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Additionally, social work schools should do more to incorporate emerging technology in the social work curriculum to equip students with the needed tools to thrive in tech spaces.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. The resources for creating this revised curriculum already exist.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Discovering the Need for Change In 2016, after nearly 50 years of funding health and healthcare leadership development initiatives, RWJF launched four new leadership programs that sought to advance a Culture of Health , one that works to provide everyone in the United States a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being.