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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011).

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Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

Faculty Focus

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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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

Faculty Focus

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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My Faculty is a Real Person! Overcoming Struggles in an Asynchronous Learning Environment

Faculty Focus

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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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

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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ENGAGEMENT: The Secret Sauce to Effective Faculty Professional Development

Faculty Focus

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?