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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

By focusing on the present and what students write, say, and want from their writing, I holistically support their growth as writers and their well-being within an academic environment. While mindfulness is often associated with yoga or meditation, it’s a practice that can be done at any time and in any environment.

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Restoring academic values: a key for university effectiveness

SRHE

takes a systemic perspective to consider a range of roles needed for HE to function effectively in the more accountable HE environment of today (Kenny, 2025). This paper argues this situation has been exacerbated by the failure of the academic profession to define their role in this more accountable HE environment.

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

By focusing on the present and what students write, say, and want from their writing, I holistically support their growth as writers and their well-being within an academic environment. While mindfulness is often associated with yoga or meditation, it’s a practice that can be done at any time and in any environment.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003.

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The Changing Role of Faculty in Higher Education Part 2: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 8

The Change Leader, Inc.

Faculty also are seeing an increased emphasis on students pursuing interdisciplinary fields; in fact, the number of students who are majoring in these types of fields has increased by almost 40 percent since 2003. This has required the redesign of general education requirements.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. At that event, colleagues from early in her career in academia spoke about how when they were young faculty at University of Arizona, Jakobsen built a sense of queer community. Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

Share faculty accomplishments in ways that resonate with stakeholders outside academia. Institutions are encouraged to view faculty experience as dynamic and to check in regularlynot just when a survey is administered. Faculty satisfaction is rarely driven by a single issue.

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