Adjunct faculty face low pay, minimal administrative support, AFT finds
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
A new American Federation of Teachers survey documents the struggles contingent faculty face, including a lack of healthcare and job security.
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Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
A new American Federation of Teachers survey documents the struggles contingent faculty face, including a lack of healthcare and job security.
Insight Into Diversity
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has condemned the recent arrests of NYU faculty members and the measures taken against others during peaceful pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Declaring faculty members personae non-grata without due process is tantamount to a severe sanction, second only to dismissal in its gravity.
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Higher Ed Dive
JUNE 14, 2023
The AAUP also documented stark pay differences by gender in its annual compensation report.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 30, 2023
New research documents a different kind of gender bias harming men in predominantly female fields and women in largely male fields.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 30, 2025
This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 1, 2025
University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. Benefits of Formative-developmental Observations When approached as a developmental or formative practice, peer observations afford faculty valuable opportunities to improve their practices and grow professionally.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
JULY 8, 2024
Hundreds of pages of documents, scores of emails, and hours of audio recordings reveal a strange, complex story. But the tenured crusader isn’t going down without one more fight. By Alex Walters Jeremy Hernandez for The Chronicle Louisiana State University at Shreveport revoked Brian Salvatore's tenure and fired him.
WCET Frontiers
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
It will affect students, faculty, and staff. This includes converting pictures and documents so they can be read with assistive technology for individuals with vision loss and providing captions for live and prerecorded videos for individuals with hearing loss.” Start working with faculty now! What is the Deadline?
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. WVU published the draft document on Oct. 7, and an open comment period ends Nov.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Using a shared document like Google Docs allows everyone to see and engage with each others comments in real time. I wrote an article on this in Faculty Focus, highlighting different first-day stations I use in class. Another tool to use could be Perusall as the annotation tool. Harvard Business Publishing Education.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 10, 2023
An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 11, 2024
What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. This document is a sample of how mentoring has strengthened a department that offers four undergraduate and two graduate programs.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Casamento’s recommendations weren’t a “mirror image” of what’s in the document, the member said. Walker, the AAUP’s grievance officer, alleged in a letter to the provost that the university had failed to follow the union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 26, 2024
Real average salaries for full-time faculty members remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Image: Tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Eastern Michigan University went on strike indefinitely Wednesday over stalled negotiations for a new contract. Many professors did not, following a 91 percent faculty vote in favor of striking Tuesday. Negotiations were ongoing Wednesday, with no agreement reached.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
When applying for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, MDC emphasized the large numbers of faculty involved with community engagement, including their having formal leadership roles in deepening and expanding community engagement across the curriculum.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2025
Morris's scholarly contributions include his latest book, Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project , which combines historical analysis with memoir to document residents' efforts to sustain their community despite housing and educational inequities.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 21, 2023
Teaching and learning is the fundamental mission of educational institutions and researchers have documented that the right levels of continuous and job-embedded professional learning opportunities will improve the quality of teaching and learning. Martin is the director of the Quality Enhancement Plan at Miles College. References: DuFour, R.,
Faculty Focus
MARCH 30, 2025
This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. A century later, AI is no longer fiction but a dynamic force in community college education, reshaping how faculty teach, and students learn.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 23, 2023
There are two words that often cause faculty to become disgruntled: professional development. As a PD facilitator, I try to do what the concept implies; that is, to develop faculty professionally because the experience should empower, encourage, and engage all learners. Why are we here?
University Business
OCTOBER 24, 2023
While staff retention may already be a well-documented issue in the higher education workforce , female professors have a far higher risk of turnover and are less likely to be promoted than men at every stage of their careers, according to a study on ScienceAdvances. Other cohorts of women reported a lack of belonging.
ACRLog
DECEMBER 10, 2024
This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews. Serving our students, faculty, and staff is a group effort. Culture of Personality So, whats with this dissidence?
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).
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 7, 2025
For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The 10 Commandments of Experiential Learning. Inside Higher Ed, August 2.
MindMax
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Document your business process. Document your processes so that when someone else steps in mid-cycle, they can easily pick up the thread. The best value propositions convey not what you or a faculty member think is valuable, but what your advisory board has proven to you is valuable. Configure your CRM.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 15, 2024
I call my document simply Course Notes and in it I enter brief comments to myself on whats working well and what could be handled differently next time. The post Creating a Course Calendar that Aligns to the Rhythms of the Semester appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
Liaison International
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Graduate colleges, central enrollment offices, individual program recruitment teams, and faculty members all play important roles in the enrollment process. Faculty involvement, in particular, can be instrumental in building the relationships needed to convert admitted applicants into enrolled students.
The PIE News
MARCH 21, 2025
Moreover, according to a CIC News report , Carney’s policy aims to address Canadas housing crisis by capping immigration until it can be returned to its sustainable pre-pandemic trend, as stated in policy documents released in February 2025.
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).
Faculty Focus
JUNE 11, 2024
What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. This document is a sample of how mentoring has strengthened a department that offers four undergraduate and two graduate programs.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 25, 2024
This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 31, 2023
I spend quite a bit of time and effort into creating this document every semester. I enjoy showcasing my personality and interests throughout this course document. Is the document accessible? Let’s return to the question posed by all my colleagues: “Is the document accessible?” Is the document relatable?
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
JANUARY 15, 2025
Hosting webinars with faculty and student panels can also provide authentic insights that make prospective students feel more connected to your institution. Ensure that your application portal is user-friendly, deadlines are clearly communicated, and the required documents are easy to upload.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
APRIL 9, 2025
User-generated content refers to any content, such as testimonials, social media posts, blogs, and videos, created by students , alumni, faculty, or other stakeholders rather than your institution itself. Encourage them to document campus life, extracurricular activities, and classroom experiences. What Is User-Generated Content (UGC)?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2025
In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. asked Samuel.
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Day 3: Writing and Research Alignment On the third day, each group was tasked with creating a document that contained a minimum of five references, with each group member responsible for contributing at least one reference. The document consisted of chunks of article drafts accompanied by their respective references. Verywell Mind.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. More importantly, an academic integrity policy could be developed via documenting the recursiveness. References Helmond, J. 2023, August 9).
Today's Learner
DECEMBER 19, 2024
As a student, I remember using them in my college history courses, relying on the competing perspectives in classroom debates, and combing through the documents and essays when writing my papers. These volumes reflect the way I approach my teaching and learning, so I was excited to shape that for another generation of students and faculty.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It’s a magical document that’s tucked away in your storage drive where you record high points and low points among your career endeavors, explains Kate Stuart.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas. The ability for students to accept academic writing guidelines is no different than any other concept faculty try to teach.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 7, 2024
At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. More importantly, an academic integrity policy could be developed via documenting the recursiveness. References Helmond, J. 2023, August 9).
Faculty Focus
APRIL 1, 2025
University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. Benefits of Formative-developmental Observations When approached as a developmental or formative practice, peer observations afford faculty valuable opportunities to improve their practices and grow professionally.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. In many units, the scholarship alone or largely determines whether the faculty member receives a favorable evaluation.
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