Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

The demand for online higher education is strong, with nearly 61% of all undergraduate and 56% of postbaccalaureate students taking at least one course online (NCES, 2022). We suggest hybrid education can effectively incorporate both online and in-person learning to cater to a variety of learner preferences and support university enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

Communication, teamwork, and problem-solving are key “success skills” employers seek in potential employees, according to a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Firstly, education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all, regardless of gender. Secondly, education is a key driver of economic growth and development, and women’s equal access to education is essential for achieving sustainable development goals. But we’re not there yet.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Tenured: No Age: 33 Education: B.A., For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A., Congressman from Maryland.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Despite our reliance on technology, humans are not robots and shouldn’t attempt to work like them. It is essential to know the educational ROI of your teaching time so that you can stop wasting time on things that don’t matter. Unfortunately, research finds that they are typically wrong—and aren’t really multitasking (Crenshaw, 2013).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement. How did we get here?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Poe Hall, the education and psychology building at NC State, was found to be contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs. Dr. Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, worked as a graduate student at Poe Hall between 2009 and 2013. Masier, through The Law Offices of F.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Despite our reliance on technology, humans are not robots and shouldn’t attempt to work like them. It is essential to know the educational ROI of your teaching time so that you can stop wasting time on things that don’t matter. Unfortunately, research finds that they are typically wrong—and aren’t really multitasking (Crenshaw, 2013).

Humanities 72

Humanities Technology Faculty Students 72

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the researchers found that the racial diversity of U.S. percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

As the demand for online education surges, especially in the healthcare field, maintaining high standards and competencies should not falter because the delivery of education is on a different platform. After all, we are real people—and the human connection will lead all to positive outcomes. References Authement, R.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this piece, we explore how social media, as a pervasive cultural force, impacts the educational journey and engagement of undergraduate students while shaping their persistence and success in academia. These skills are worrisome for some educators due to the informal nature of online social spaces.

Academia 87

Academia Learning Experience Environment Humanities 87

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I find it quite striking: the most successful unionization efforts have shifted from the traditional working class to the educated class. Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters. NYU agreed to a union in 2013; what explains the delay elsewhere?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students. Positionality statement. How did we get here?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

As the demand for online education surges, especially in the healthcare field, maintaining high standards and competencies should not falter because the delivery of education is on a different platform. After all, we are real people—and the human connection will lead all to positive outcomes. References Authement, R.

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HEPI

MARCH 22, 2023

In his recently published specification for education and wellbeing analytics, Professor Edward Peck, the UK Government’s higher education student support champion and Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), highlighted the opportunity provided to universities by the increasingly sophisticated use of student analytics.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fortunately, instructors have the ability to intervene and use this as an educational opportunity for students to position themselves for greater success. Bui, Myerson, and Hale 2013), although most comparisons are between students writing notes themselves on paper or on a laptop, rather than simply taking a picture.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fortunately, instructors have the ability to intervene and use this as an educational opportunity for students to position themselves for greater success. Bui, Myerson, and Hale 2013), although most comparisons are between students writing notes themselves on paper or on a laptop, rather than simply taking a picture.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mosaic launched in 2013 and our work is done through collaborations with hundreds of local organisations, universities, corporations, cultural groups, faith organisations, K-12 schools, immigration agencies and government entities. Readers say they enjoy the empathy the case studies show because they portray the human experience.

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Guidance Humanities Organization Students 121

SRHE

JUNE 29, 2023

by Marguerite Koole As I write this response to the first symposium on “ Prospects for Space in Higher Education ”, I am aware of my asynchronicity. One of the characteristics that defines us as human is our use of technology. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue: “human thought processes are largely metaphorical” (p6).

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

College presidents can come in all shapes and sizes, but these last two weeks illustrate institutional boards’ confidence in hiring academics with battle-tested experience in higher education. Those retiring are also stepping away from an illustrious career in higher education that’s lasted decades.

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PeopleAdmin

JUNE 16, 2023

Centralized Hiring with Messiah University Don Lerew, Assistant Director of Human Resources at Messiah University , has been working with PeopleAdmin for almost 10 years and has seen his team through several implementations of different PeopleAdmin solutions. There was a lot more human time required to complete those tasks.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Definitions: Librarians: Librarians are professional staff as defined by NISO: Staff members doing work that requires professional education in the theoretical and scientific aspects of librarianship, archives, or information studies. 2013, section 3.4] computer sciences, business administration, education). 2013, section 3.4]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. Gavin Newsom.

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The PIE News

MARCH 7, 2023

Academics analysed 400 reflection essays written by international students between 2013 and 2020, and found six key themes emerged. However, scholars, practitioners, and fellow students in higher education can learn much from these reflections.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your willingness to put it all into words is all that is necessary – Margaret Cousins As human beings, we often think of self-improvement and ask ourselves, How can I be better? Educators serve as powerful motivators in encouraging appreciative mindsets. Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 10, 2023

As students, faculty, and staff figure out the “newish-normalish” of college learning during the age of COVID-19, prioritizing a “pedagogy of care” (informed by Noddings, 1984, 2013) is essential to re-connecting peer-to-peer and professor-to-student relationships so that mutual care and respect can be re-established in college classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your willingness to put it all into words is all that is necessary – Margaret Cousins As human beings, we often think of self-improvement and ask ourselves, How can I be better? Educators serve as powerful motivators in encouraging appreciative mindsets. Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

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Students Empower Model Learning Experience 100

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

While shootings on campus are extremely rare, said Williamson, the mental health and wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff can be deeply impacted by these events, which is why it is crucial that institutions of higher education respond to these incidents. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, the ‘dog-eat-dog’ culture of Higher Education (HE), austerity measures and more are leading to harmful consequences, and stakeholders with protected characteristics are worst affected ( Berg, Huijbens, and Larsen 2016 ; UKRI 2021 ; Bhopal 2020 ; Blell, Liu and Verma 2022 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Arts And Sciences Leadership Inclusivity History 61

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their Passions Donors continue to prioritize Education in the top three giving categories (Religion, Human Services and Education). He is also a Professor of Education and Special Assistant to the President at VUU. billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively. Smothers Sr.

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