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Knack, an education technology company that provides a program for managing peer tutoring, has recruited four more institutions as customers. Saint Mary s University of Minnesota, Illinois Institute of Technology, Florida Memorial University and Morris Brown College have all joined other schools to provide free course-specific, peer-to-peer tutoring for their students.
Students can use the service to get free help from peer tutors on their own campuses online or face-to-face or access help after hours with Knack s own network of tutors. They can also use the program to line up weekly help with their courses and can sign on to serve as paid tutors as well. Institutions can set up a schedule of tutoring sessions through Knack and post it to their school websites.
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Drop-in series: New course studies the visual arts of the African World
Inspired by Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University in which he shared how auditing a calligraphy class in college inspired him years later to add diverse fonts to Apple computers, we set out to visit classes around campus that make us think differently about what it means to be educated. This is one in a series of drop-ins.
January 6, 2021 at 10:00am
Last fall, the FIU Art + Art History Department launched a course that examines the continuities between African arts and the arts within an African diaspora.
The undergraduate class Introduction to the Visual Arts of the African World (ARH 3511) taught by professor Alvin L. Pondexter, is the first course of its kind to be offered at FIU through the Department of Art + Art History, and it s open to students of all majors.
December 18, 2020 Provided
A poster image of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, who in 1972 became the first Black candidate for a major party’s nomination for president.
For their final projects, students in Africana Studies professor Carole Boyce-Davies’ Black Women and Political Leadership course created a podcast featuring interviews with Black women in politics.
“I thought the question of Black women in politics had not been explored substantially,” Boyce-Davies said. “This gave me the idea for the course – to study Black women’s writing on political leadership, to hear their stories in their own words and discuss how they fight for change.”
Podcast episodes can be found on the “Black Women Lead” blog.