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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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New Report: Faculty Remain Stubbornly White

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite pledges from campus leaders to diversify all facets of their institutions, faculty have remained stubbornly white, according to a new report from the Education Trust, a non-profit that works to close opportunity and achievement gaps. “It That the student body is diversifying much faster than the faculty is. ”

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Being Genuine in the Classroom 

Faculty Focus

In The Art of Teaching , Jay Parini is quick to dismiss these questions, since authenticity itself is, he argues, yet another construction and [t]he notion of the true self is [] utterly false (2005, 59). Faculty Focus , January 25. References Bartlett, Jackson Christopher. Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity. Hernandez, Paul.

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Report finds faculty diversity isn't meeting student needs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Faculty diversity is positively associated with student success across a variety of metrics. So how are institutions doing with respect to faculty diversity? The colleges and universities were given a score of zero to 100 based on faculty diversity, hiring equity and tenure equity.

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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester

Faculty Focus

The post Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Jossey Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA. Wiggins, G. & & McTighe, J. Understanding by Design, 2 nd ed. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Alexandria, VA.

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