Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), across the course.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

At one point, I asked these college newcomers to share academic and career aspirations. But despite the enthusiasm, research points to a far more sobering reality: approximately half of all college students fail to graduate within six years of enrollment. References Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

“ According to the latest research on college students and mental health, three out of 10 students have struggled with depression in the last two weeks, and over one in four have expressed issues with anxiety. Described below are three ways that instructors support student well-being and mental health. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020).

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Inclusivity Students Faculty Development Environment 131

WCET Frontiers

MAY 1, 2025

Since the 1990s, when a distance learning renaissance began, colleges and universities have invested significantly in digital technology (i.e., faculty development, and support for teaching utilizing technology to better meet the needs and expectations of students.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Blogs Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the top down August 9, 2023 Joanna Krueger Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNC Charlotte The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Faculty Training and Development Preparing faculty to create inclusive online learning environments is crucial for promoting access, engagement, and inclusion. Developing Online First-Gen Student Support Programs First-generation college students often face unique challenges that require tailored support.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. By informal, I mean posting a short video inviting them to participate in a discussion forum, journal entry, or an anonymous online poll.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Postsecondary education in America has historically been committed to inventing courses of study, educational programs, or even whole institutions dedicated to the needs and expectations of its society, peoples, and cultures (Community Colleges, n.d.). Foundational Knowledge: Understanding and remembering information and ideas.

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College Students Learning Experience Model 63

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ahmed “Once I did start giving those presentations, I was shocked and concerned at the degree to the lack of context and information that a lot of my colleagues had about my community,” said Ahmed said. “So But after he began teaching about the issue, he gradually changed his mind. Dr. Amer F. 7 Israel-Hamas conflict.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

This reliance on numbers has driven many colleges to focus heavily on metrics in an effort to improve outcomes, streamline operations, and secure funding. As community colleges across the United States struggle with declining retention rates, it has become increasingly clear that institutional focus should not be limited to numbers alone.

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Retention Community College Professional Development Faculty 103

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Postsecondary education in America has historically been committed to inventing courses of study, educational programs, or even whole institutions dedicated to the needs and expectations of its society, peoples, and cultures (Community Colleges, n.d.). Foundational Knowledge: Understanding and remembering information and ideas.

College 61

College Students Learning Experience Model 61

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. An experience that, when combined with teaching composition and serving as an academic senator, has informed my fathoming of the AI tides approaching higher education’s shores.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 20, 2024

Strategy 2: Regular Faculty Development Maintaining your faculty's professional growth and ongoing training is revolutionary. Your staff will always be up to date on the newest technologies, instructional techniques, and business trends if you engage in regular faculty development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Retention Faculty Community College Recruitment 134

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

“ According to the latest research on college students and mental health, three out of 10 students have struggled with depression in the last two weeks, and over one in four have expressed issues with anxiety. Described below are three ways that instructors support student well-being and mental health. Almog, 2019; Triandafilide, 2020).

Inclusivity 98

Inclusivity Students Faculty Development Environment 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. An experience that, when combined with teaching composition and serving as an academic senator, has informed my fathoming of the AI tides approaching higher education’s shores.

Professional Development 111

Professional Development Faculty Technology Administration 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s best used for original responses that combine information in novel ways. Begin by copying a prompt to a blank document and fill in the details that are in [ BOLD ] with your own contextual information. As above, please replace the sections in [ BOLD ] with information from your classroom context. Write this introduction.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

According to Schwartz (2015), “When ideas and related concepts can be encapsulated in an image, the brain remembers the information associated with that image.” For more information on how to use BookSnaps in education, take a look at Tara Martin’s website. For one, learning retention. Experiment with BookSnaps in your teaching.

Students 111

Students Arts And Sciences Retention History 111

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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s best used for original responses that combine information in novel ways. Begin by copying a prompt to a blank document and fill in the details that are in [ BOLD ] with your own contextual information. As above, please replace the sections in [ BOLD ] with information from your classroom context. Write this introduction.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Matthew Shick, JD “The sacrifice that veteran populations have made for our country make our advocacy and support absolutely critical,” says Matthew Shick, JD, senior director of government relations and regulatory affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Principle 4: Think in units of three: Explain: Walk the participants through a relatively small piece of information or skill, perhaps (as relevant) providing a model or example that participants can build from. Each insight should be a new contribution to the class reflections rather than the same repetitive information.

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Empower Model Faculty Technology 97

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

When students are left to associate freely about their knowledge of a culture, they provide key information about what they already know and where their interests lie. Many students seemed to sense this and provided information outside of the text bubbles in the second set of mind maps. Katherine S.

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Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Learning Experience 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

When students are left to associate freely about their knowledge of a culture, they provide key information about what they already know and where their interests lie. Many students seemed to sense this and provided information outside of the text bubbles in the second set of mind maps. Katherine S.

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Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Learning Experience 98

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. Newell, W. H., & Green, W.

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Students Faculty Higher Education Engineering 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Higher Education Administration Faculty Education 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

At one point, I asked these college newcomers to share academic and career aspirations. But despite the enthusiasm, research points to a far more sobering reality: approximately half of all college students fail to graduate within six years of enrollment. References Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P.

Students 64

Students Retention Higher Education Faculty Development 64

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. Newell, W. H., & Green, W.

Students 98

Students Faculty Higher Education Engineering 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Higher Education Administration Faculty Education 98

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 20, 2024

Data analytics software or an college accreditation software like Creatrix Campus may be quite helpful when it comes to examining this data. Using Data to Inform Decisions Using Data to Inform Decisions Okay, the data has been collated, bundled up, and examined. Time to rethink.

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Institution Achievement Organization Faculty Development 52

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I promise: Life will go on, you will graduate from college, you will work in honorable professions, and best of all, you will still drive all your children to soccer practice in a really nice minivan. That doesn’t work as well with the current generation of college students as it may have in years past. Life is going to be great.

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Medical School Faculty Scholarship History 94

Today's Learner

MAY 28, 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutes I met my first suicidal student while serving as a 23-year-old instructor at a local community college. The 2022-2023 Healthy Minds Survey , with over 76,000 participants attending college, found that 41% were clinically depressed, 36% were anxious, and 29% had taken psychiatric medications in the previous year.

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Faculty Faculty Development Scholarship Students 59

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

There are over 4,000 universities and colleges in the United States employing over 1.5 million faculty, over half of which are either tenured or on tenure track. Web searches are quick and easy, and more detailed information on faculty backgrounds, achievements, and curricula can often be found in recent accreditation reports.

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Faculty Faculty Development Achievement Department 61

Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report found that the average college retention rate hovers around 61%, with higher retention rates directly linked to improved institutional reputation and financial performance. Your role involves using tools to monitor these metrics and support faculty development effectively.

Higher Education 71

Higher Education Institution Retention Education 71

WCET Frontiers

JULY 9, 2024

As such, compliance positions and roles are critical for colleges and universities that offer distance education programs, as failure to comply with these requirements can result in serious consequences for institutions, including fines, loss of accreditation, and/or sanctions. This situation can result in high workloads for existing staff.

Department Of Education 52

Department Of Education Higher Education Degree Allocate 52

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

According to Schwartz (2015), “When ideas and related concepts can be encapsulated in an image, the brain remembers the information associated with that image.” For more information on how to use BookSnaps in education, take a look at Tara Martin’s website. For one, learning retention. Experiment with BookSnaps in your teaching.

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Students Arts And Sciences Retention History 59