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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Encourage Faculty-Student Engagement Outside the Classroom: Encouraging faculty to engage with students outside the classroom through office hours, mentoring programs, and informal interactions can significantly enhance student-faculty relationships and foster a sense of belonging.

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When Inclusion Gets Complicated: What Faculty Need to Know About Service Dogs in Higher Ed

Academe Blog

After a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and mobility issues, she returned to academia with her service dog, Sampson. Administrators and faculty voiced concerns about contamination, distractions, and liability. Advocate for department-wide training during faculty development days. Lab environments were deemed too hazardous.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Encourage Faculty-Student Engagement Outside the Classroom: Encouraging faculty to engage with students outside the classroom through office hours, mentoring programs, and informal interactions can significantly enhance student-faculty relationships and foster a sense of belonging.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus. Faculty development seminars can also be conducted to share best practices in incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

One approach is for higher administration, deans, and faculty to commit to an interdisciplinary agenda and review course syllabi for evidence of interdisciplinary focus. Faculty development seminars can also be conducted to share best practices in incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge.

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How the Choice Based Credit System can Improve the Quality of Higher Education in India

Creatrix Campus

Student Guidance and Support: With increased flexibility and course choices, students may require guidance and counseling to make informed decisions and navigate through the curriculum. Faculty development programs: Conduct regular faculty development programs to enhance teaching and assessment methods suitable for CBCS.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Evolving with a holistic approach is more important now than it’s ever been.

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