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Danielle Leboff

Danielle Leboff is a Content Marketing Operations Specialist at Top Hat. While at Top Hat, Danielle works to share perspectives from higher ed's top leaders through strategic marketing efforts. Previously, she worked in the non-profit and youth education sectors.

  1. This Harvard Professor Is Breaking Down Barriers for Low-Income Students

    Anthony Abraham Jack is on a mission to help new-to-college students navigate higher ed by effecting institutional change at universities and colleges nationwide

  2. Why Giving Students Personalized Attention Is a Must for All Professors

    Ohio University professor Laura M. Harrison on why investing in ways to support students should be the priority of any higher education institution

  3. I Rejected Tenure to Focus on Fixing the Classroom

    Josh Eyler walked away from a tenured position, choosing instead to pursue his passion: affecting the way professors think about teaching. Now, he is focused on working with faculty to implement evidence-based teaching strategies that help students succeed

  4. This Professor Is Focused on the Lasting Trauma of Gun Violence

    When sociologist and ethnographer Jooyoung Lee’s friend was shot in a racially-motivated attack, it shook him to the core—and inspired his study of gun violence in pursuit of grassroots policy change

  5. My Education Began When I Realized We’re Not Taught to Teach

    For Lauren Herckis, an anthropologist at Carnegie Mellon University, change is the only constant in a teaching life. But if you listen and adapt, you'll do more than survive—you'll thrive

  6. College is Failing Students When It Comes to Digital Literacy

    Tony Bates, who helped pioneer distance education and computer assisted learning at the University of British Columbia, says that leadership is critical to solving the privacy and digital literacy dilemmas that have existed in education since the 1990s

  7. Top Hat Geoscience Textbook Author Wins Innovation Prize

    Top Hat author Dr. Ricardo Nogueira, a senior lecturer in Geosciences, has been honored by Georgia State University (GSU) with a prestigious instructional innovation award. He was chosen over 11 other candidates at the university for embracing new technologies in the classroom, including video and an interactive textbook, which he authored and developed with Top […]

  8. Introducing Top Hat’s New Gradebook

    Top Hat’s revised grade and attendance management system is designed to be intuitive and easy to learn. Product manager Karthiga Vezhavendan talks about the gradebook's great new features

  9. 5 Trends That Will Dominate 2017 in Higher Education

    2017 educational trends include being innovative, doing less with more and looking for new sources for resources and inspiration