Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

We want to make sure that we are serving our students to the best of our abilities and, thereby, creating inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences. The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recognizes the following 11 evidence-based practices as integral to student success.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Types and Purpose of Inquiry Inclusive Survey Question Cultural Inquiry.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Types and Purpose of Inquiry Inclusive Survey Question Cultural Inquiry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. I am elated by Safa Zaki’s appointment,” said Trustee Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics and vice dean in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College instructors, in increasing numbers, have begun to think seriously and systematically about how to enhance student learning and engagement, remediate content and skill deficiencies, close achievement gaps, and build upon students’ prior knowledge and skills.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

When our students overcome obstacles in their learning due to our support and encouragement, or experience transformations from our well-constructed course design and subsequent instruction, we succeed in cultivating spaces where their success is made possible. What motivates one may not motivate all.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. My experience is different.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. Engineering is a UK powerhouse sector, growing in all UK regions and impacting all economic sectors. i] On the contrary, engineering is almost entirely absent from the school curriculum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. in clinical health psychology from Duke, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Morehouse College. Dr. Gary G. Bennett holds a Ph.D. and an A.M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Ohen has been appointed chief equity and inclusion officer at Amherst College. Ohen served as associate dean for equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Ohen Sheree M.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The opening of the Center of Excellence for Social Justice marks a pivotal step in our ongoing commitment to cultivating a fair and inclusive society,” said Dr. Frances Ward-Johnson, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) are expanding the idea of partnership and generating an AI coach specially for educators, called StretchAI ([link] to create more inclusive learning experiences. We were surprised by the students’ comments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But institutions need to start preparing now for a range of possible outcomes, said Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel, a consultancy that works with schools on issues of diversity. But the overarching message was that the decisions will reverberate far outside admissions offices and that colleges need to get ready now.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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Campus Sonar

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It also means the perception of your institution is shaped by people outside of it, increasing the lack of understanding and poor public perception of college. Perception is shaped by human feelings and opinions, and is dynamic in nature. These changes transformed online word-of-mouth and redefined what it means to be an influencer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported. Simmons’ ties to Harvard are longstanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 18, 2023

José Luis Bermúdez, the interim dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Arts and Sciences, resigned on Monday after the university backtracked on its hiring deal with renowned journalism professor Kathleen O. My continuation in this role would be a needless distraction as you all continue the work that we have begun.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Evans currently serves as chancellor of Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey but will take the helm July 15. We were impressed with Dr. Evans’s demonstrated commitment to and experience with advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for students, faculty, and staff,” said Dr. Jean Wincek, chair of the St.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Jones cultivated a promising profession as an actor and performing arts teacher at The City College of New York, where he found himself instructing theater students with whom he participated in creative projects. It was well-received,” says Jones, who gathered confidence to approach City College leadership.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

” Lectures are a “great tool for college courses, but they are just used way too often,” he says. And while the idea that “learning can be fun is thrown out the window once in college,” it can be “just as exciting for us.” 1 barrier to academic success cited by students in the survey over all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

In honor of Pride Month, college and university campuses across the U.S. Now, especially with all the anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, it's important that we have visibility on college campuses and in communities," said Shane Windmeyer., Students at Ohio University similarly celebrated Pride through art in late May. 25 at the gallery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) are expanding the idea of partnership and generating an AI coach specially for educators, called StretchAI ([link] to create more inclusive learning experiences. We were surprised by the students’ comments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine Institution: University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing Graduate Program: Ph.D. These are experiences that are unfortunately shared by disabled clinical healthcare students across the nation, including disabled nursing students, medical students and applied health sciences students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Evans currently serves as chancellor of Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey but will take the helm July 15. We were impressed with Dr. Evans’s demonstrated commitment to and experience with advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for students, faculty, and staff,” said Dr. Jean Wincek, chair of the St.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Spend a Grinch-Free Holiday with Greensboro’s School of Health and Human Sciences UNC Greensboro is a regular on our HEM holiday video highlights list, and this video puts the spotlight on its School of Health and Human Sciences. But, what is a video highlight? And, what is a highlight video for an event?

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

For educators, this day can inspire curriculum development, community engagement, and reflection on policies to ensure a commitment to equity and inclusion. It underscores the need for higher education institutions to actively dismantle these barriers and create inclusive learning environments that empower all students to thrive.

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