Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004). Faculty members can be better supported in developing and teaching interdisciplinary courses through various strategies.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class. But it made me terrified to speak at faculty meetings.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Drawing on over two decades in academia, Michele Poulos specializes in general psychology, social psychology, and human growth and development. Students are always on their phones. Many struggle to actively pay attention.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Faculty trustee Amy Reid reported that 40% of its faculty have left this year. Corcoran won out against two other presidential prospects with extensive experience in academia. The post President moves: Milestone hires and dramatic exits start off the month appeared first on University Business.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It isn’t far-fetched to imagine faculty declaring ‘we’re not here to teach them to be self-aware’. Passive teaching methods, such as rote-memorisation and large-format lectures still dominate academia, despite research calling for more appropriate ways of instruction.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Director Camille Dumont of the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) about how she aligned career services with academia at Post University to better prepare students for the workforce. Camille has been at Post University in a variety of capacities since 2011.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Udacity and Coursera around 2011-2012, there was initial hype about their potential to fundamentally transform higher education. This technology might simplify content creation to meet academic standards while keeping faculty in control of what’s taught.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

About 600 faculty members signed a letter of “no confidence” in the president over the use of campus police, KVUE reports. Over the past eight years as provost of Oregon State University, Feser’s won acclaim for his initiatives diversifying faculty and championing equity and inclusion across institutional operations.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

But I do believe that at a university that has emerged as a leading voice for free inquiry in higher education, faculty members and other powerful members of the university community should be responsible for advancing free and open debate by exposing our own viewpoints to opposing arguments, especially within the university community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On the Other Side of Heaven – 1957 , a fiction piece, received recognition and praise and was later reprinted in the journal Reverie: Midwest African American Literature , in 2011. Entering higher ed and academia, she went on to earn a B.A. The prose was in English, and the dialogue was in Spanish. It just made sense to me.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. But Oreskes refused the offer.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1930-2011) worked for the U.S. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. The representation of Black faculty in their respective faculty ranks slightly changed from 1975 to 1985. Derrick Albert Bell Jr. in 1975 to 4.2%

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 8, 2023

1930-2011) worked for the U.S. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. The representation of Black faculty in their respective faculty ranks slightly changed from 1975 to 1985. Derrick Albert Bell Jr. in 1975 to 4.2%

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission University of Chicago Press. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University and Why It Matters Gleason, Philip. Books Alexander, Bryan (2020).

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