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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

The OLC can also ensure faculty are prepared to provide regular and substantive interaction (RSI) between themselves and students, one of the determinants used to address student eligibility for the use of Title IV funds (US Department of Education, 2020). Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration , 20 (2), 1-12.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

The OLC can also ensure faculty are prepared to provide regular and substantive interaction (RSI) between themselves and students, one of the determinants used to address student eligibility for the use of Title IV funds (US Department of Education, 2020). Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration , 20 (2), 1-12.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Administrators must recognize that professional development programs should not solely focus on pedagogical techniques but also on the importance of relational skills. Building student relationships requires intentionality and support from institutional leaders.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. Faculty development can include HyFlex training to optimize this balance.

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Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI

Faculty Focus

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

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Dr. Elfred A. Pinkard Appointed Brown University’s First HBCU Presidential Fellow

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was appointed as fellow to help bolster Brown’s efforts and relationships with HBCUs, according to Brown officials, who added that he will create a consortium of partner schools for research, faculty development, student opportunities, and bolstering the number of HBCU undergraduates attending graduate school. Pinkard holds an Ed.D.