Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021).

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College. Dr. Conway has served as director of Teaching and Learning for seven years at DMACC and is one of the content developers for the Inclusive Stem Teaching Project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For many community college students, gateway math courses—required for entry into many programs of study—have functioned more like gatekeeper math courses. The colleges were in different regions and settings, ranged in size from small to large, and had racially diverse student bodies.

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University Business

JUNE 13, 2024

Skeptical faculty are beginning to change their tune on the implications of artificial intelligence in the classroom, so much so that some believe generative AI tools rival the instruction of a professor. However, building AI programs for students requires faculty to also be up to speed on the technology, Pazz said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A recent article published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mentioned faculty concern about the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. Institutions must examine the bowels of their infrastructures to advance student, staff, and faculty development from “artificial” to “authentic.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Baston, president of Cuyahoga Community College pointed to the “opportunity deserts” that exist within higher education that stretch beyond race and ethnicity. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. Michael A. Dr. Michael A. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and support of the American Indian College Fund have maintained the TCURJ as an open access journal. Mathis of the John E.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College. Dr. Conway has served as director of Teaching and Learning for seven years at DMACC and is one of the content developers for the Inclusive Stem Teaching Project.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Three California community colleges are fighting to start new baccalaureate programs, which their leaders insist would fill critical local workforce needs and help students who couldn’t otherwise afford to pursue a four-year degree. ” Half of states now allow community college baccalaureate degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Consider Bryan Kelvey, a meteorology professor at Carroll Community College. Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Consider Bryan Kelvey, a meteorology professor at Carroll Community College. Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018).

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 19, 2023

Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty at the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Scroll down to access the transcript.) 25:20:75: Reframing faculty professional development as equity infrastructure. 47:48:24: Words of advice for those shepherding online professional development at their campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sean Burke , associate provost of Luther College, in Iowa, has been selected as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alma College, in Michigan. Richmond Hill , interim provost of the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent.

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Continuous Learning Institute

JULY 4, 2022

23:54:50: Barriers that faculty create for students. Resources: - Practice guide for faculty in supporting transfer students, published by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students: Supporting Transfer Student Success: Five Key Faculty Practices. - 49:04:00: Barre as a metaphor for institutional change.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

For example, instructors can make online courses more accessible by partnering with instructional designers, faculty developers, and disability support services to ensure that they are employing technology in equitable ways. Instructors should consider how disability, gender, class, and race impact students’ experiences.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Why this is important Students need transparency when it comes to faculty expectations around AI use in class. A great example of a comprehensive task force is the one that the University of Alberta created that includes students, instructional design, faculty, IT, and the Dean of Students.

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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. Understanding causal factors is a start, but faculty still need to know what to do. Faculty develop an excellent “spidey sense” for detecting student problems. What was her dilemma?

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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.). Teachers College Press. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 24(3).

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The offices of diversity and inclusion and development have partnered to ensure cultural proficiency-themed research grants are available for faculty, students, and staff. The community college students join Cal State LA during the summer between the first and second years of their associate degree program. military.

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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.). Teachers College Press. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 24(3).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Technology continues to make its mark on college campuses across the nation. With the rapid changes in whats available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education. See #1 above. Leverage prior online experience.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Below are a few of the key themes that appeared in multiple capstone projects from past participants. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

keeps me grounded in the importance of student success–especially, the success of those communities who have been historically pushed out, othered, and marginalized in U.S. I have taught at the Assessment Institute as faculty member in 2024. I was a faculty member at this year’s (2024) student affairs assessment institute.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. The students then meet in small groups, compile their own responses, and elect one student to send the results to the faculty member.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2025

Unfortunately, the most common form of feedback that instructors receive, the mandatory end-of-semester evaluation, is primarily intended to assess faculty rather than the teaching and learning experience. The students then meet in small groups, compile their own responses, and elect one student to send the results to the faculty member.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

That the main contributor to college’s rising college costs isn’t the cost of instruction, which has stagnated. Because whatever their professed claims, neither student learning nor equitable outcomes are pre-eminent institutional or faculty priorities. It’s not what institutions say that matters.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Too often, faculty develop curriculum in silos, disconnected from the realities of the job market. A good friend of mine , Russell Lowery-Hart, was the president at Amarillo College. He’s now the chancellor at the Austin community college district in the Austin community. Faculty would go out.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 · Episode 254 Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education 36 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust.

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