DETROIT – Meet Coco. She's a 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever raised in a prison – and she happens to be one of the best trainers of people in the world. Coco is one of about a dozen dogs in the ...

They are key contributors to student educational success, yet relatively few receive adequate professional development, write Anna Conway and Thomas J. Tobin. Some college and university adjunct ...

In 1993, the Office of the Provost established a requirement that graduate students functioning as teaching assistants (TAs) be trained using a series of UNIV courses coordinated through Educational ...

A research report, Analysis of the Effectiveness of Safety Training Methods, published earlier this year, explored a variety of training methods used in safety training. The authors noted that “the ...

Academics are in love with our own past. Our libraries contain yards of books on higher-education history, recounting the stories of institutions and fields. Next to those books are biographies and ...

PROVIDENCE — Last year, then-Governor Raimondo issued an urgent plea for more substitute teachers, calling the need enormous. Public schools were looking for almost 1,000 substitute teachers, 300 in ...

But these workers—crucial in assuring that school inclusion happens for students receiving special education—often are left out of the loop when it comes to professional development. Change is ...

The patient’s breaths had become labored. He struggled to pull air from his mouth to his lungs. It got so bad late one Saturday night that he decided to say something about it the next time his nurse ...

Over 60% of college students have experienced some form of trauma in their lifetime, significantly impacting their academic performance, mental health, and overall well-being. The compounding effects ...

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan considered New York’s teaching hospitals one of his state’s crown jewels. He was right, and they remain so today. These world-class facilities are staffed by ...