Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Is your college coastal? He includes examples of colleges and universities from around the world, both positive and negative. Community colleges in coastal counties are meant to serve those counties.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The first time I lost control of a college classroom, fiction played a starring role. The course was an honors seminar on race and American politics, focused on current events. Or maybe it was the absence of concrete facts. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South. That week’s topic: voting. The year: 2008.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Shared governance stands in the way, even though it is conceivable, in theory, to measure student persistence within a particular discipline and student performance in subsequent classes (performance measures that some for-profit colleges actually use). Therefore, colleges and universities need to be more enterprising.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Above all, librarians work to connect students to the larger systems of the college or university to promote success in all avenues. The idea is if a student can set healthy habits early in their college career, they’ll be more successful later on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to Dr. Kyle Greenwalt, associate director of teacher preparation at MSU’s College of Education, the fifth year had become a roadblock. In response, the College of Education is making admission to the program simpler and easier. This year, the program expects to graduate roughly 200 teachers.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

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. Educational Researcher , 41 (9), 352-362.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 8, 2022

April 11, 2020 by Dean Hoke – When I came back to the United States in 2017-18 I wanted to re-engage with the US university community. Annual Leadership Seminar : In particular this is my favorite because of the networking and the presentations. Membership in AAUA helps support the association’s mission. King, Ed.D.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s particularly great for first-generation students who’ve never been to college before and whose family members have not been to college. Adapted from the Magna Online Seminar presentation, Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom. It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. They really enjoy it.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

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. Educational Researcher , 41 (9), 352-362.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

September 6, 2022 by Dean Hoke – The percentage of students without a post-secondary degree in the United States has been a widespread concern for decades. This topic has been of interest to me for over 50 years because I am one of those who dropped out of college. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

a transformative experience that combines research, mentorship, and personal growth for junior nursing students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has been offering just that. Since 2022, UCI an R1 institution.

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#Deaning

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Some days it feels, with my graduate seminar, that term has just flown by–how can it be week 8 already?–and I decided to teach this fall when I realized that if I was going to lead our College through a period of remote alternative delivery, I should have some experience of teaching in this distanced way myself.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s particularly great for first-generation students who’ve never been to college before and whose family members have not been to college. Adapted from the Magna Online Seminar presentation, Five Tips to Engage Students Outside of the Online Classroom. It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. They really enjoy it.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities. Adler suggested replicating the two-year Honors Seminar of his own Columbia student experience.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 12, 2024

Tailored for higher education academic advisors, faculty innovators, and visionary deans, this blog serves as your guiding compass in revolutionizing student experiences and fostering institutional excellence. Long-Term Success Supporting students throughout their college journey and beyond. We trust you'll find this post valuable.

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Since then, I have embedded equity-centered assessment practices across roles in enrollment services, orientation, academic support, and first-year experience seminars. On a college level, I work to integrate assessment of student learning and development whenever relevant and appropriate.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. Smart is a former Dean of Arts & Sciences at QU, Professor Emeritus of English, and resident of the great state of Maine.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

25 April · Episode 152 How to Attract and Inspire Underrepresented Students: Lessons from Lucy Cavendish College 37 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Replicate the highly successful Cambridge Lucy Cavendish College model in the US to attract and enroll underrepresented students. Roundabout Now, a boot camp program similar to U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“Studying criminology is not going to make you a criminal, and it’s not going to make you a better criminal,” said James Allan Fox, a longtime professor of criminology at Northeastern University and the former dean of its College of Criminal Justice. “What we teach is ‘how come?’

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. Smart is a former Dean of Arts & Sciences at QU, Professor Emeritus of English, and resident of the great state of Maine.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The next evolution of academic programming, in fact, requires revolution , Ozlem Kilic , inaugural dean of the University of Tennessee’s College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies , says on The University Business Podcast. ” The college isn’t just looking at STEM in new ways, Kilic adds. .

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That year, her lawsuit says, David Russell, who was then UT Southwestern’s new vice provost and dean of basic research, met with Vitetta for the first time to say he was planning on shutting down her manufacturing practice lab—where she made vaccines for clinical trials—in order to give this space to a younger male professor.

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