Multicultural Students News Today

Two UW-Stout staff members have been named special award recipients by the Universities of Wisconsin and were honored at a ceremony on Nov. 9 ...

Educators worldwide are interested in understanding factors that contribute in a successful learning experience for undergraduate students in the online platform. To explain such interest scholars have focused their attention on exploring ways of supporting students learning process utilizing the digital technology. In our study we aimed to explore the perceptions of multicultural undergraduate students on ways that they prefer to be assessed in the digital learning platform. The sample size was...

This study aimed to understand the attitudes and challenges faced by multicultural undergraduate students enrolled in academic writing classes. The focus of the study was on the use of formative feedback to scaffold the development of academic writing skills, including ways of conducting research and writing essays and reports using the online platform. The approach involved collecting and extracting relevant data from a survey that included questions related to the provision of formative feedba...

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Group work in online classes can be a challenging task for both teachers and students. Teachers need to make sure that the group task is designed carefully to achieve its learning objectives, and students need to learn how to work efficiently as members in a group to achieve their targets and meet deadlines. This paper addresses the efficacy of group work in academic writing online classes, and it aims at exploring multicultural students’ attitudes towards working in groups in online academic ...

Penn States four various Homecoming Courts were announced ahead of the Homecoming football game against Illinois Saturday.

Student leader Heidy Canales, who serves as the president of the Latino Caucus and director of programming for the Bellisario Alliance for Multicultural Students, says the experiences and opportunities available to her at Penn State have equipped her for lifelong success. “You come in thinking ‘this is going to be the best four years of my life,’ but it really plays out that

The Texas A&M University System was one of the first six Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) awardees. All current members of the Alliance are part of the Texas A&M University System. Many high impact practices (HIP) have been emphasized in Alliance’s 30 years of programming with Diversity/Global Learning as a focus in the last 14 years. Diversity/Global learning has been supported in two formats on the Alliance campuses, through traditional study abroad programmin...

Reading your heritage: affinity book clubs on campus Content warning: This article includes mentions of sexual assault. Northwestern’s Asian Pacific Islander Desi American affiliation group discussed the culture of victim-blaming survivors of sexual assault, especially on college campuses, after reading Chanel Miller’s “Know My Name.” The APIDA Book of the Quarter is co-hosted with the University’s Asian American Studies Program to introduce contemporary works of Asian-American author...