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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Effective inclusion involves providing appropriate accommodations and support tailored to the unique needs of each student (Dyer 2022, 1712). Alongside the benefits of online learning come challenges, particularly in ensuring access, engagement, and inclusion for all students.

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When Inclusion Gets Complicated: What Faculty Need to Know About Service Dogs in Higher Ed

Academe Blog

Joey has launched her own consulting business, advocating for policy reform and helping institutions develop inclusive practices for service dog users. She receives inquiries from students and faculty across the globe and regularly gives talks to universities about navigating accessibility in research environments.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

Effective inclusion involves providing appropriate accommodations and support tailored to the unique needs of each student (Dyer 2022, 1712). Alongside the benefits of online learning come challenges, particularly in ensuring access, engagement, and inclusion for all students.

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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our experience with the Equity Champions provides valuable lessons for institutions looking to engage faculty in improving student outcomes. Often there is an assumption that faculty will see such engagements as too time-intensive and, therefore, not worthwhile.

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Fostering Inclusivity Through True Support for Female Faculty

WCET Frontiers

As the “baby” of the department, I was by far the youngest and least experienced of all my colleagues, so subbing was a great resource to introduce me to fellow faculty and gain exposure to a wide range of teaching practices and content. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You. HarperOne, 2020.

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Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career

Faculty Focus

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. They also make our teaching more inclusive by giving students a new way to share what they’ve learned and to formulate their own paths to learning.