UB Tech® 2020 highlights include the Women in Technology pre-conference, during which attendees will come to better understand unconscious bias, recognize gender barriers contributing to bias for women in the workplace, share experiences of bias, and learn strategies to mitigate bias.
The University of Kentucky iPad Initiative enables students to connect to one another, create something new and collaborate in ways not previously possible.
Among other Greek reforms, colleges and universities are publishing behavior scorecards, postponing rush weeks, banning hard alcohol and setting academic requirements for fraternity and sorority members.
First-generation students face internal and external pressures, structural barriers, and resource constraints that impact their ability to attend and succeed in higher education. This includes academic and social preparation, and familial, financial, and psychological pressures.
Students today demand more from the campus spaces where they go to work alone or in groups. And while students might put all kinds of technology on their wish lists for these spaces, there is one feature that's essential: outlets, lots and lots of outlets.
Over the past two years the #MeToo movement has revealed longstanding and widespread mistreatment of many women in the workplace. Nichols College President Susan West Engelkemeyer says teaching leadership skills to a new generation of male and female students may offer the best hope for a workplace makeover sooner than later.
Presenters at this year's UBTech® conference covered a range of flexible-space strategies, from informal learning spaces to collaborative classroom redesign to professional development that steers instructors toward new teaching approaches.
