Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

ID Benefits While traditionally associated with K-12, higher ed, and the corporate world, IDs can bring transformative benefits to professional schools (programs offering terminal degrees for a specific profession) and support faculty in their endeavors to innovate and engage students. The word selective is important.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 20, 2023

Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning Differ Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1216047089.png png jessica.blake@… Wed, 06/21/2023 - 12:00 AM

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. But he nonetheless continues to support the bill.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Faculty diversity is positively associated with student success across a variety of metrics. So how are institutions doing with respect to faculty diversity? The colleges and universities were given a score of zero to 100 based on faculty diversity, hiring equity and tenure equity.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Members of the UAGC Faculty Council write that the op-ed is a collection of baseless assumptions that completely overlook the institution's true mission. Unfortunately, this article was based on the authors perspective rather than on facts and thus lacked the academic rigor of factual data from credible sources.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: There’s a lot to like about proposed changes to West Virginia University’s appointment, tenure and promotion guidelines, from a faculty rights perspective. But the same draft is alarming to some faculty members at WVU. This is too onerous a mandate where tenure is not on the line, some critics argue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., Gomez serves as the campuss Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2025

This provided a new perspective on the ideas we established in our previous article, Why Cant Your Real-World Project Live in the Real World? Faculty Focus , March 2022.) In that article, we made a case for enabling real-world clients as partner educators.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. Networking with each other establishes collegiality and camaraderie that strengthens reciprocal relationships among faculty.

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The PIE News

MARCH 25, 2025

Rankings such as QS and Times Higher Education heavily weigh internationalisation metrics, including international student ratios, international faculty presence, and global research collaborations. International recruitment can significantly influence global rankings a crucial consideration in strategic planning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

Title: Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies & Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at San Jos State University Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.A., Gomez serves as the campuss Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Serving Institute Initiatives.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Such strategies equip faculty with the tools to effectively respond to students’ needs (Rahimi et al., Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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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. How can it enhance teaching without diminishing faculty agency? What are its merits and limitations?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2025

The purpose of this article is to provide considerations for educators when creating experiential learning opportunities for students. Faculty must consider the learning experience, specifically how it is aligned to the course and if students met the SLOs with success. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I wrote an article on this in Faculty Focus, highlighting different first-day stations I use in class. Dr. Joanne Ricevuto is the Assistant Vice President for Instructional Success, overseeing faculty programming at her institution and leading professional development workshops on key topics in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

2 response to a separate survey question about which faculty actions students believe would promote their academic success. 3 faculty action students say would promote their academic success. Among students who cite faculty teaching style as a barrier to their academic success, two-thirds want to see more variation in teaching styles.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

Faculty learning communities (FLC) as an approach to improving pedagogy have their roots in 1979 when the first FLC was launched at Miami University by Dr. Milton D. FLCs provide faculty with the chance to work in a trans-disciplinary fashion on matters of importance to a cohort or a particular topic for the cohort to work on.

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The Academic Designer

MAY 2, 2024

Martine Cadet interviews Jennifer van Alstyne on the significance of faculty online presence and personal academic websites. They discuss how these websites enhance communication, facilitate connections, and allow professors to share their work effectively in a digital age.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

The telehealth provider surveyed over 500 faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions last month for this survey. Students’ sustained mental health issues are essentially feeding faculty and staff’s stress and anxiety, according to the TimelyCare survey. Employee workload was identified as the No. ” she said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In our latest article, we examine why waiting to explore merger options is becoming an increasingly dangerous strategy for institutions facing enrollment and financial challenges.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 17, 2018 Magna Publications. The post Embracing the Silence appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! First snowflakes of the season today. Birkel, ed.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 4, 2018 © Magna Publications. Faculty Focus. Faculty Focus. link] The post The Appreciative Close: A Strategy for Creating a Classroom Community appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. All rights reserved. link] Gabriel, K.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on January 4, 2018 Magna Publications. But as I write this article in mid-December, the reality is there are papers and projects to grade, events to attend, holidays to celebrate, and a short break before spring courses commence. All rights reserved. Where do you start?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this article, Drumm shares planning considerations for university leaders, from initial vision alignment through operational execution. As mergers become a more common strategy for sustainability and growth, we're seeing presidents and boards focused on the challenges of post-merger integration.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: DMEPhotography/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter? How, in a polarized nation, Stephanie L. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The four-day convening will include administrators, faculty members, policy makers, and innovators interested in the latest trends and strategies for enhancing educational practices and leadership. This is the first in a series of articles about the H.E.L.F. From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F. will sponsor “Ideation. Innovation.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on November 23, 2020 © Magna Publications. Too often, faculty make content coverage the focus of lesson planning. Online faculty in particular often build a lesson by gathering resources and adding instructions on how to go through the content. All rights reserved.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Tabbye Chavous, PhD, vice provost for equity & inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan (U-M), has responded critically to a recent New York Times article on the university’s DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in an open letter posted in the Michigan Chronicle.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 14, 2025

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills provost is stepping down next month to return to the faculty there, a development that news articles last week suggested is tied to his disagreement with hiring practices at the School of Civic Life and Leadership, or SCiLL.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Article Overview: ✓ Analysis of why students and parents choose accelerated degree programs, and what this means for your institution's future. A structured framework for academic realignment, including faculty engagement and curriculum redesign approaches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I had already been taking part in the sit-ins and civil rights demonstrations, so when I read that article in the paper, I knew that too, was something I could do something about,” he recalls. “So, He understands the challenges that Black faculty and administrators face at predominantly white institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

However, instead of promoting the success of culturally relevant teaching strategies, according to a report by the National Association of Educators and an Education Week article , states are conflating culturally relevant teaching practices with critical race theory and are therefore adopting laws to ban the use of this pedagogical approach.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I floated the idea of co-authoring an article on student wellness from their perspective, incorporating the responsible use of AI, fostering a passion for research, and ensuring that the process was enjoyable. Importantly, students had the option to opt-out at any time if they felt uncomfortable with the direction of the article.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Deslauriers, director of science teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a senior preceptor in physics, and his colleagues measured students’ perception of learning when active learning is toggled on and off. That can mean changing faculty perceptions, too. No In-Article Careers: 3

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