Faculty Focus

MARCH 21, 2023

Therefore, faculty professional development needs to be a professional community of scholars working together to maximize each other’s success. When executed properly and consistently, faculty professional development has the potential to expand faculty effectiveness and lead to academic transformation. References: DuFour, R.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

link] ​​ The post The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher. Journal of Response to Writing, 2 (2): 88–105. Hallett, R., & Tierney, W. College Teaching , 59 (2), 66–72.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. Networking with each other establishes collegiality and camaraderie that strengthens reciprocal relationships among faculty.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Faculty filed a class-action lawsuit against the university for only providing the community a seven-day notice. Asked why the university gave such short notice of its impending closure, Papatheofanis cited athletics’ inflated budget and a growing inability to pay faculty, NBC San Diego reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

While past studies have also concluded that women faculty experience lower retention rates, this study’s authors believe their evidence paints a more poignant picture that women are more likely to leave due to workplace climate. Other cohorts of women reported a lack of belonging. Other cohorts of women reported a lack of belonging.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two words that often cause faculty to become disgruntled: professional development. As a PD facilitator, I try to do what the concept implies; that is, to develop faculty professionally because the experience should empower, encourage, and engage all learners. Why are we here?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 21, 2023

Therefore, faculty professional development needs to be a professional community of scholars working together to maximize each other’s success. When executed properly and consistently, faculty professional development has the potential to expand faculty effectiveness and lead to academic transformation. References: DuFour, R.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Faculty should be able to provide an exceptional active learning environment for our students that helps students achieve success of the desired course and/or program outcomes (Camacho & Conceicao, 2020). After all, the closer the faculty is to the student, the less likely the student is to fall off task.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

Faculty 120

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Faculty should be able to provide an exceptional active learning environment for our students that helps students achieve success of the desired course and/or program outcomes (Camacho & Conceicao, 2020). After all, the closer the faculty is to the student, the less likely the student is to fall off task.

Environment 98

Environment Faculty Learning Experience Technology 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two words that often cause faculty to become disgruntled: professional development. As a PD facilitator, I try to do what the concept implies; that is, to develop faculty professionally because the experience should empower, encourage, and engage all learners. Why are we here?

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Professional Development Faculty Arts And Sciences Policy 94

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas. The ability for students to accept academic writing guidelines is no different than any other concept faculty try to teach.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Faculty filed a class-action lawsuit against the university for only providing the community a seven-day notice. Asked why the university gave such short notice of its impending closure, Papatheofanis cited athletics’ inflated budget and a growing inability to pay faculty, NBC San Diego reports.

Arts And Sciences 87

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

Faculty 98

Faculty Environment Inclusivity Professional Development 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

College teachers can use it to create a welcoming classroom environment, increase learning, improve attendance, and reduce test anxiety (Banas, Dunbar, Rodriguez, & Liu, 2011). Faculty interests and areas of expertise frequently don’t overlap with student interests. The key to using humor successfully lies in its authenticity.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust. Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011). Goleman, D.

Students 122

Students Arts And Sciences Learning Experience Faculty 122

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

College teachers can use it to create a welcoming classroom environment, increase learning, improve attendance, and reduce test anxiety (Banas, Dunbar, Rodriguez, & Liu, 2011). Faculty interests and areas of expertise frequently don’t overlap with student interests. The key to using humor successfully lies in its authenticity.

History 111

History Faculty Environment Community College 111

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Brooks continued his exploration of the vast African diaspora in 2011, alongside other internationally known scholars, as the general editor of the 1,600-page African American Almanac (Cengage Gale, 2011).

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Changing Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2016

Thus Departmental Research covers cost sharing (separately broken out in the table above); start-up packages, bridge funding, and seed funding for faculty; tuition aid to students working on sponsored projects; funds for visiting researchers; and everything else related to research that is not funded elsewhere. TOTAL EXTERNAL. Institutional.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While faculty members might feel good when students score well in their examinations and essays, there is little long-term fruit. In our 2020 class there were 24 students from both the School of Biosciences (Faculty of Science) and the School of Life Sciences (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences). 2011, Allan, 2016).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2011) into all parts of our courses (see Saucier et al., His awards and honors include the University Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentoring of Undergraduate Students in Research, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Teaching Resource Prize.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

We are committed to securing the best possible options for our students, faculty and staff and believe this merger with Villanova offers the best opportunity to ensure that the Rosemont College history and legacy endures.” Faculty filed a class-action lawsuit against the university for only providing the community a seven-day notice.

College 81

College Liberal Arts Administration Faculty 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Instructors who use a Lightboard to teach difficult concepts to asynchronous online students also bring resident faculty expertise to the online space, non-dependent on the course facilitator. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting.

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Technology Adult Education Faculty Retention 112

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 23, 2024

Students inspired by learning trends and faculty guidance have the opportunity to be positively engaged in the online classroom. The online learning environment consists of a web-based learning atmosphere where student and faculty experiences and positions are located in separate geographical locations.

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Environment Retention Faculty Collegial Environment 138

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In August of 2022, I read the book “Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence of All Learners,” (Richard, Church, and Morrison, 2011). However, somewhere along the way, they captured my attention. I was impressed with VTR in a way I had not experienced with other instructional strategies.

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Professional Development Instructional Planning Technology Students 131

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

In terms of levels of co-creation, the above approach can be linked to different parts of the co-creation ladder as set out by Bovill and Bulley (2011). 2011):176-188. There is certainly scope for starting small and finding which aspects and classifications are fit for purpose and beneficial in one’s own classes. Bovill, Catherine.,

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Students Higher Education Degree Retention 116

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas. The ability for students to accept academic writing guidelines is no different than any other concept faculty try to teach.

Students 98

Students Humanities Faculty Organization 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Brown, 2011, para. Many people feel attacked with this kind of shift of language, but language is one way to influence societal attitudes, and there is a need to change societal attitudes towards autistic people (Brown, 2011). 2011, August). Strategy 3: Accept and normalize autistic traits in your classroom. Baglieri, S.,

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

John Sygielski, president since 2011, is credited for increasing student retention rates by 6% and graduation rates by 11%, per WITF. He will return to the system as a faculty member after a sabbatical. “I am grateful for my time at the college and for those who have supported my student-first efforts,” he said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But due to costs, equipment needs and teacher shortages, even that declined by two-thirds between 2011 and 2023. Longstanding critiques of the work-readiness of engineering graduates have stimulated a growing implementation of PBL approaches in engineering courses, championed by professional bodies, employers and faculties alike.

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Engineering Arts And Sciences Inclusivity Applied Science 78

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Research on faculty perceptions suggests that the ideal enrollment for online courses is lower than what they would consider suitable for high-enrollment courses, with course design playing a crucial role. Faculty who would like to incorporate higher level learning and critical thinking (Bloom and Fink taxonomies etc.)

Students 116

Students Environment Faculty Retention 116

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. Our data source does not contain information about adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty hiring trends, nor, as previously discussed, on postdoctoral research positions.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Instructors who use a Lightboard to teach difficult concepts to asynchronous online students also bring resident faculty expertise to the online space, non-dependent on the course facilitator. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting.

Technology 98

Technology Adult Education Faculty Retention 98