Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: There’s a lot to like about proposed changes to West Virginia University’s appointment, tenure and promotion guidelines, from a faculty rights perspective. But the same draft is alarming to some faculty members at WVU. This is too onerous a mandate where tenure is not on the line, some critics argue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The report notes that the original protections the law intended to provideensuring adequate investment in instructionhave largely been made redundant by other mechanisms, including faculty unions, the Faculty Obligation Number (which requires 75% of credit instruction be taught by full-time instructors), and the Student-Centered Funding Formula.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Diversifying representation sends a signal to students, faculty, and other stakeholders that leadership is attainable, and education serves as a gateway to socio-economic gains for communities and the citizens they serve. Richard Leigh Racism is still present; whether it is acknowledged, it is implicit.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. What explains the faculty’s unrepresentativeness and the sluggishness of change?

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University Business

APRIL 6, 2023

is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. In 1987, part-time faculty made up 33% of the workforce. The academic workforce in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The percentage of nonmedical, “instructional staff” faculty members at public and nonprofit private colleges and universities who work full-time but aren’t on the tenure track has almost tripled since 1987, relatively steadily increasing from 5 percent to 13 percent. “The U.S. “The U.S.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The challenges for faculty working with students in the 21st century are rising. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education? In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

It brings together presidents, provosts, faculty, funders, policymakers, and industry leaders to address big questions facing HBCUs. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. At the end of the day, UNITE isn't just a conference; it's a movement.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 7, 2025

Redefining Student Success Metrics in Higher Education: Beyond GPAs and Graduation Rates Who you ask about the definition of academic success will also determine the type of answer you get. Students tend to have a more personal definition of success , like having supportive mentors, developing confidence, and building lasting connections.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Gray felt inspired to instead become a chaplain at Amarillo College and help faculty and staff of the two-year institution with their mental health struggles. Gray was more interested in the mental health of faculty and staff members. “The timing couldn’t have been more perfect,” Gray said. Jacqueline S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amid globally turbulent times, in fewer than 18 months, administrators and faculty united as we shifted the culture by re-envisioning our distance education practices. Department of Education issued new rules on Distance Education that changed definitions related to RSI. 3/5/20: The accreditation team site visit concluded.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 6, 2025

An additional AI prompt example to include with the previous example might be: The case study is to include an assignment portion that allows faculty to measure the students performance. Another output for the case study could be an answer sheet for faculty to use and to share with students afterward to enable self-evaluation of performance.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

WCET members spend countless hours in committee meetings trying to finesse definitions for digital learning modalities. It should help when you need to answer questions about how to label a course, whether a new modality definition is needed, or what to do in the grey space in between those, and all the other related inquiries.

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ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I remember sensing, on a few occasions, some tension or territoriality with faculty. In the last year or two, the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) , a leader in this arena, updated their definition of “undergraduate research.” It seems to me very much in the vein of reserving “research” for the loftiest pursuits.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 2, 2024

.” Additionally, they pushed through the Antisemitism Awareness Act on Wednesday, a measure proponents argue will empower the federal government to curtail anti-Israel protests on campuses by formalizing a definition of antisemitism. Republican Rep. The debate underscores broader divisions over U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. Many faculty and staff, she pointed out, have had to take on extra responsibilities from other positions that have gone unfilled. They’re worn down. People are just plain overworked,” said Dr. Margaret W.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They also threaten promotions and tenure pursuits by potentially punishing faculty for not following the state’s definitions of DEI, the suit alleges. These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said.

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 5, 2025

It seems to me that social intelligenceby his definition, the ability to understand people and act wisely when interacting with them has been the third wheel to mechanical intelligence (understanding physical things) and abstract intelligence (understanding ideas) for the last century in higher education. I offer the following definitions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although a full discussion of HICC is beyond the scope of this opinion editorial, we begin with the working definition proposed by Billy Vaughn and the Diversity Officer Magazine : “…an ability to successfully negotiate cross-cultural differences in order to accomplish practical goals.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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ACRLog

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked about the educational role of librarians in higher education, our current cohort of Immersion facilitators identified some common themes among us, most notably that all of our potential roles are definitely contextual and sometimes contested. Last year I returned to the library faculty as science liaison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.” This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

Due to shifting market needs, President Gordon Gee announced last August that West Virginia University would cut or restructure 32 programs and lay off 169 faculty. And I know the definition of a spayed college president or chancellor: someone unwilling to quit or be fired over a matter of principle. How ought it be lived?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference underscored the mission of postsecondary institutions and academics to work against dehumanizing atmospheres and support the best policies and practices that improve student belonging, community connection, and create thriving faculty. “We While TCUs are not a monolith, she found similarities in methodology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

There are campuses and faculty who are committed to developing the civic engagement of students who are scientists, and also linking the understanding of science as an important piece of our civic knowledge,” said Brown. For Hulbert, this lack of singular definition makes research that much harder. “We Dr. Ioana G.

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

.” The broad language of the regulation, like other recent policies written by Florida legislatures aimed at K12 and higher education, has sparked concern in faculty and other education leaders on how expansively it can be applied. However, there are some exceptions to the rule. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando), according to WUSF.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

During my first week as an academic librarian, many faculty discussions on campus were regarding the issue of generative AI software, such as ChatGPT. A majority of the faculty at a panel discussion held on campus about AI expressed concerns over plagiarism, copyright, academic integrity, etc.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. Some senior faculty are not able to fill their course loads during in-person traditional timeframes. This has had some real impacts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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ACRLog

MARCH 31, 2024

I have collaborated with faculty, staff, students, and community members to make these events successfully happen. In my role, I support faculty members as they develop community-engaged projects and/or courses. After I teach my information literacy sessions, I’ll typically pitch an elevator speech to these faculty members.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. In fact, most studies concerning African Americans have focused on the retention of students or faculty (Wolfe & Dilworth, 2015). Trustees reported their college also broadened the definition of diversity to include opinions.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

These regulations included a new definition of academic engagement. Furthermore, WCET brought national attention to the practical and philosophical considerations of correspondence definitions in an April 2012 blog on “Is Your Distance Education Course Actually a Correspondence Course?” ( Poulin, 2012 ).

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University Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Denny Sanford is contributing $50 million to establish a research facility in Sioux Falls that can house more students and faculty, thus expanding its research and partnerships with public and private contractors. State and local funding will assist with startup facility operations and student recruiting.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.” This faculty member may give exams and may collect student artifacts, such as projects or papers, but the faculty really doesn’t connect student performance with the course design or classroom experience.

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