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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Instructional designers empower faculty to focus once again on teaching, content, and their students. Faculty professional development follows as the goal of an ID should always be toward faculty autonomy. The word selective is important. Is an ID a Consultant or Admin? Let’s also not forget about assessments.

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Empowering Education Through Collaboration: The Success of the Mississippi Virtual Community College

WCET Frontiers

This ongoing professional development ensures that instructors are equipped to meet the evolving needs of digital learners, not only in fully online settings but also in hybrid and digitally enhanced face-to-face courses.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

Instructional designers empower faculty to focus once again on teaching, content, and their students. Faculty professional development follows as the goal of an ID should always be toward faculty autonomy. The word selective is important. Is an ID a Consultant or Admin? Let’s also not forget about assessments.

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Higher Education Trends in Executive Education

MindMax

Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension, Harvard University. Weber , Associate Vice Chancellor, Leader and Culture Development, Texas Tech University System. “It’s There’s no longer a prescriptive pathway for executive education or professional development,” she said. “It’s

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Crystal Jackson “I didn’t feel empowered to do that,” she recalls. “I You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Jackson hopes to study ways to draw diverse candidates into nursing professional development.

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Succession Planning in HBCUs Ensures Long-Term Sustainability

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With a strong succession plan, HBCUs can ensure a smooth transition of leadership, cultivate a pipeline of diverse and visionary leaders, and continue to fulfill their vital mission of empowering generations of students and advancing social justice.

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The F Word

Inside Higher Ed

But I feel certain that mandating ongoing professional development in pedagogy is a non-starter. Deans, department chairs, and other administrators should inform faculty about classes with unusually high DFW rates or with significance performance and achievement gaps and target assistance to help faculty redesign such classes.