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HBCU Consortium To Focus on Innovation Teaching


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Norfolk State University is joining forces with two other historically black colleges and universities to create new and innovative teaching practices that ensure that students graduate with the degrees and skills employers value. Using a $1.2 million grant from UNCF, Norfolk State, along with Morgan State and Tennessee State Universities, is forming


the HBCU Consortium on


Transformative Teaching Practices for 21st Century Career Pathways.


The recently three signed a universities of understanding to create


memorandum this


groundbreaking consortium, which will primarily focus on faculty development to include incorporating more active learning strategies, forming inter-insti- tutional faculty learning communities and learning technologies


more for 21st about century


digital skill


building. Known as the C3 Cluster, the collaboration is expected to involve 1,000 faculty members among the three campuses, which serve approximately 20,000 students.


“For more than 80 years, Norfolk State University has served as a pathway to


prosperity and upward mobility


for thousands of graduates," said Dr. Melvin T. Stith Sr., interim president of Norfolk State University. "We are also excited to join our cluster partners in forming the HBCU Consortium on Transformative Teaching Practices for 21st Century Career Pathways because we firmly believe that best teaching practices should be standard teaching practices.”


The UNCF Career Pathways


Initiative, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. through a $50 million grant, will enable selected predominately


black graduation, to


address social and economic issues of minority


foster community, identify


and underemployment. Over the next four years, the consortium will engage in structured that


HBCUs and institutions


unemployment


activities and


validate new innovations, amplify and scale best practices, and disseminate learnings. The C3 Cluster will extend its collaborative efforts to include additional members of their university communities. Key to this work will be creating opportunities for alumni and employer partners to provide valuable input


on preparing undergraduate students for post-graduate success.


Volume 12 Number 10


July 2018


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