Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

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. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 150, 1-15. Three of her doctoral candidates received national awards for their dissertations.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Timely and personalized feedback plays an essential role in engaging students and motivating them (Wang and Lehman 2021, 571); AI can aid in streamlining and fast-tracking feedback. Mobile Phone Distraction and Its Effects on Academic Performance of Israeli College Students. She is also a freelance fiction writer. Nacheva, Radka.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. It’s why Compton College’s campus boasts a beautiful market featuring healthy prepared meals.

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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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D. In New York City?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. The chair was established in May 2021. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard. Phylicia Rashad Rashad is currently dean of the Chadwick A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Badia Ahad will become dean of Oxford College at Emory University, effective Aug. An African American literature and culture scholar, Ahad focuses her work on the intersection of cultural studies and positive psychology – a field founded on the idea that social good and well-being are at the core of human experience. Ahad holds a B.A.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

Scientific Reports 2021 meta-analysis found that 24% of PhD students have clinically significant symptoms of depression, and 17% have clinically significant symptoms of anxiety. one for STEM and professional schools, the other for arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. million individuals with college degrees and 2.9

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Image: With fiscal year 2022 in the books, some colleges are reporting blockbuster fundraising years even amid economic uncertainty and a period of high inflation. Broadly speaking, the results vary by institution, with some colleges missing the money train while others have cashed in on the generosity of donors. billion in 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) medical college was “intimately connected” to slavery in the mid-1800s, according to a report commissioned by VCU and published last month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The 2021 law also asked schools to establish a scholarship or economic program for students with a connection to slavery.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Here's a breakdown of the key characteristics of robocolleges: Technology-Driven: Robocolleges heavily utilize online platforms, pre-recorded lectures, automated grading systems, and limited human interaction. Focus on Profit: These institutions often prioritize generating revenue over providing a high-quality educational experience.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The majority of data was pulled from records between 2018 and 2021. For example, the rate was 2.13% for humanities degree holders, 2.0%

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. The motive behind the use of bots is to defraud colleges and universities.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

The University of New Mexico discovered yesterday that across the state’s college and university system, 60% or more of its students suffered basic needs insecurity, such as food and housing. Behind these numbers is real human suffering. This data should help dispel myths about the privileged college student.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

million students enrolled in college, just under 170,000 studied abroad in the 2021/22 academic year. That’s less than 6% of all American college students. Department of Defense’s Boren Awards, for example, American college and graduate students can receive up to $25,000 to study in world regions critical to US interests.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. This finding leans toward establishing the correlative—perhaps causative—nature of emotions and pursuant action (Huberman Lab Podcast # 39, 2021).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

And colleges struggle to deliver what employers want. Three studies on alternative credentials were published recently, and all point to employers’, colleges’ and students’ confusion about microcredentials. ” This dynamic presents challenges and opportunities for colleges. But there is good news, too.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It is no secret that there has been a sharp rise in rates of depression among college students (Alamo et al., 2020), which may be caused by a reported increase in anxiety and stress (Sahin Baltaci, 2021). Below are six check-in ideas to build community in college classrooms. Ecological models of human development.

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University Business

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On the academic side, the expanded campus hosts its college of business, college of education and school of social work. ” Iona College, located in New Rochelle, N.Y., He completes this in two ways: providing the physical space fosters human connection and program collaboration. And here we are.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As beacons of potential for individual growth and social mobility, community colleges often serve as a catalyst for underserved students to pursue a path in higher education. Partnerships between prisons and community colleges can lead to significant benefits for all involved.—

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Image: Humans write syllabi, which means they make subjective choices about words, tone and content. But some colleges do not recognize these innovative, tech-enabled syllabi. That’s because students often arrive at college with mind-sets. Others from varied racial groups and genders suffer from impostor syndrome.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Jia Osiel “Jia will support ATD in becoming a more equitable, inclusive and high performing non-profit modeling the expectations we hold for our colleges,” said Dr. Karen A. Osiel was a DEI Champion Awardee by National Diversity Council at its 2021 National Diversity & Leadership Conference. Stout, president and CEO of ATD. “Her

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Commonplace among colleges, ESG investing strategy weighs company impacts on climate change and other environmental factors, labor practices and human rights, and issues of governance—including diversity among board members—as well as shareholder rights and company transparency.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. The motive behind the use of bots is to defraud colleges and universities.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. This finding leans toward establishing the correlative—perhaps causative—nature of emotions and pursuant action (Huberman Lab Podcast # 39, 2021).

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 25, 2022

Instead, he found Rize Education , a for-profit company that works in partnership with the Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium , a coalition of dozens of independent colleges that share financial information and strategies for institutional sustainability.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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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. But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Dear university governing board members, American institutions of higher learning are the envy of the world and have always stood for academic freedom and been invaluable advocates for human rights. ” Many Chinese tech companies are involved with the surveillance state and military-civil fusion. Since that time, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sarita Cargas, associate professor of human rights at the University of New Mexico Honors College. They talked about having headaches and trouble staying awake in class, feeling anxious that other people would hear their tummies grumbling,” said Cargas, an associate professor of human rights at the UNM Honors College.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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