Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 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. “Overall, the lack of progress on faculty diversity in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

George Washington University’s (GW) adjunct faculty union voted on a bargaining agreement on Nov. Per that agreement, GW part-time faculty may see their first contractual raise in four years and an increase in base salaries – from $4,467 to $5,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). Gonzalez explained how his arrival to this point involves others who have collaborated with him, co-creators he calls “queertors.”

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH In April 2019, a friend and I visited the grave of Lin Zhao in Suzhou, China to pay respect to one of history’s bravest defenders of intellectual freedom. Scanning a hill dotted with around 300 gravestones, we saw three CCTV cameras trained on one spot and climbed to it. My friend snapped…

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2025

I wanted to take a moment to look back at the history of the projects. A Brief History of the WOW Awards In 2004, our then-Executive Director, Sally Johnstone, introduced the first annual WOW Awards: We started this new award to recognize outstanding efforts in implementing technology in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Now, as more institutions move toward sustainable investment , a group of faculty is calling on its pension fund to go green. Middlebury, located in Vermont, was an early adopter, divesting in 2019. ” Editorial Tags: Environmental issues Faculty Pension/retirement Image Source: Bill Kish for TIAA-Divest!

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Too often, faculty make content coverage the focus of lesson planning. Nick Shackleton-Jones (2019) provides a neurological explanation of this principle in his Affective Context Model of learning. Online faculty in particular often build a lesson by gathering resources and adding instructions on how to go through the content.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

During his tenure, Vasquez Heilig has worked to increase diversity at the school, with faculty of color now representing almost 29% of the College of Education and this year’s incoming freshman students of color more than tripling since 2019. Vasquez Heilig – ranked among the U.S.’s Vasquez Heilig holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Brandi Waters, senior program manager of AP African American Studies at the College Board, and Dr. Ericka Armstrong Dunbar, professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). 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. Example could be applied to a composition assignment.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 22, 2019 © Magna Publications. Faculty interests and areas of expertise frequently don’t overlap with student interests. Allen, PhD, is a professor of history at Trinity Valley Community College. All rights reserved. Humor has a place in education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 22, 2019 © Magna Publications. Faculty interests and areas of expertise frequently don’t overlap with student interests. Allen, PhD, is a professor of history at Trinity Valley Community College. All rights reserved. Humor has a place in education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sánchez, University of Southern California; and Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, Community Based Health Worker and Midwife Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Never forget why you do what you do. Eatman, Rutgers University-Newark; Dr. George J. Stay steadfast in your dedication to justice.” I didn’t come in as a scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway. It offered a second opportunity in 2019. “It’s open to all Meredith College employees, and that includes adjunct faculty and part-time staff—it’s a wide variety of people who participate,” Schurer said.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

2019; Vallée et al., A digital choice board activity (asynchronous): Provide students with a digital choice board that deepens their thinking and learning about the class content to complete at their own pace and time (see Women’s History Month Choice Boards ). So, what is blended learning? References Graham, C. link] Li, C.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The post Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. All rights reserved.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

As the director of a Center for Teaching and Learning, I have a window into how many faculty think about teaching, learning, and preparing for a new course/term. The post Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Analyze your course policies (i.e.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). 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. Example could be applied to a composition assignment.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. The task of embracing change can be daunting for both faculty and students. And for history? Two decades of detailed slide presentations have resulted in students who multitask during class.

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University Business

APRIL 10, 2023

Yesterday, three unions at Rutgers University comprising faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate student workers flooded Rutgers’ three campuses to commence the first strike in the 257-year-old school’s history. The school had closely averted its first union strike back in 2019 after reaching a last-minute deal.

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University Business

JULY 21, 2023

Through the tuition revenue they accrue by teaching lectures to the federal grant dollars they gain through sponsored research, faculty may be the financial pulse of an institution. which will discuss revamping faculty affairs in a post-pandemic world. Interfolio is a higher education technology company focused on faculty affairs.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

” is largely associated with the Crimson Tide, one of the most successful football programs in NCAA history. In March 2021, she, along with other members of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, officially requested that the university remove the word “Dixie” from the lyrics. ” is.).

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 9, 2019 © Magna Publications. In history courses, students can take a picture of a timeline and identify turning points or key events. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! Schwartz, K. 2015, July 15).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

history, gender and race with the law. The program has helped students become faculty, researchers, and policy makers. The Charlestons played important roles at their institutions when Harvard and UW – Madison began to undertake serious review of their past history of racial discrimination.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

He brings outstanding results in growing enrollment, increasing student and faculty diversity, developing innovative programs, and forging beneficial partnerships inside and outside the academy," added Montgomery. Vincent, president of Talladega College, a historically Black institution in Alabama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

"Jotería studies is a political project and scholarly field vibrantly evolving at the intersection of Chicanx, Latinx, queer of color, and transgender studies concerned with the histories, identities, scholarly works, and artistic and activist practices of queer Chicanx and Latinx people," according to professors Eddy Francisco Alvarez, Jr.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. The post Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. All rights reserved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs. African Americans deserve better. Dr. Ivory A.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Their efforts to build faculty-staff coalitions and improve working conditions despite lacking university recognition or contracts harkens back to higher education organizing before the Cold War. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

” More contemporary accounts, like Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 British Book of the Year–winning Queenie , also deals with the struggle to chart a direction in life, find a job and forge meaningful relationships and define an identity separate and apart from one’s parents’ expectations.

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