Pilot shows promise and challenge of using simulations to prepare students for social work practice

Amid a documented shortage of behavioral and mental health service providers in large urban areas, the use of VR simulations ...
Edutopia

How You Can Use Writing to Shape Your Teaching Practice

Teachers can explore different modes of writing to facilitate personal reflection and meaningful connections with other ...
BMJ Open

Understanding and improving responses to suicidality for Department of Veterans’ Affairs clients in Queensland: a data linkage study – project protocol

Introduction This project aims to comprehensively examine the incidence of suicidality, individual and population characteristics, and health pathways, for a cohort of Australian veterans using linked ...
Rutgers University

Discovering a New Way to Measure Poverty

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is difficult or impossible? To overcome this obstacle, Rutgers researchers have ...

What the First Amendment doesn’t protect when it comes to professors speaking out on politics

However, the First Amendment does not apply to how a private college regulates its professors’ speech or academic freedom. Professors at public colleges have at least the same First Amendment free ...

Does the First Amendment protect professors being fired over what they say? It depends

American colleges and universities have traditionally encouraged free speech. Recent dismissals of professors are eroding ...
University of Denver

From Curiosity to Discovery: How Students Can Get Involved in Research

“There's the thrill of being part of a team or leading an investigation that leads to some new understanding of the world, and that's really the heart and soul of a liberal arts education,” says Anne ...