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ROCK SPRINGS — At the Student Government Association Awards Banquet on Thursday, April 29, Western Wyoming Community College announced two Outstanding Graduates, Mustang Awards, and scholarship recipients for 2020-2021. Western’s Honor Roll will also be published on the website after final grades are submitted.  Western’s Outstanding Graduate is selected by a committee that includes administrators, professionals, faculty, and staff. The nomination criteria and scoring rubric is based on campus involvement, leadership roles, positive impact on other students, and the nominee’s ability...

Unisa head Professor Mandla Makhanya bows out after 33 years Share Pretoria - Unisa has bid farewell to its stalwart academic and vice-chancellor Professor Mandla Makhanya, who has left the institution after 33 years of service. During a farewell function this week, Makhanya said his love for academia remains close to his heart. “This is something that has never been replaced by anything else,” he told the audience of fellow academics. Chairperson of Unisa council Mashukudu Maboa said as an academic, Makhanya navigated the academic project successfully: teaching and learning, research and...

Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies, and a member of the Environmental Humanities South research program at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the South African film, wildlife documentary and literary fiction. He is currently working on representations of Cape Town in film. In 2013, he received a Distinguished Teacher’s Award from the University of Cape Town, and in 2014 a National Excellence in Teaching award from the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association of South Africa. Experience

New York, NY, April 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Within the last few decades, the number of programs that incorporate horses to benefit the overall ...

Courtesy of Wellesley College Roberta Schotka (center left), who oversees peer tutoring services at Wellesley College, trains peer educators at the Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center. As the coronavirus pandemic forced college campuses to shut down last March, Tiana Iruoje scrambled to quickly transition peer tutoring services at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering to online-only appointments. Iruoje, director of student engagement and success for the school, needed to be able to track student check-ins and tutor hours. She nearly hired a computer...