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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As students enter the online classroom, they bring with them diverse educational experiences, backgrounds, and expectations of faculty interactions. Such strategies equip faculty with the tools to effectively respond to students’ needs (Rahimi et al., Mentors can be faculty members, alumni, or industry professionals.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Harnessing the drive and energy needed to maintain motivation over the course of a semester can present challenges, particularly in our post-pandemic years when factors of isolation, stamina, and access to optimal learning environments have taken their toll. References Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P. New York: Basic Books.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Faculty orientations and continuing a culture of mentoring January 31, 2023 Kristen McCauliff Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Ball State University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. For employees, including Zucker School of Medicine faculty, business employee resource groups foster a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. References and Resources Almog, N. 2019) How to avoid cognitive overload during learning.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 6, 2024

A Closer Look at Faculty Performance Appraisal and Development System editor Tue, 05/07/2024 - 02:12 Higher education institutions now analyze faculty performance for promotion, tenure, and remuneration increases. Let's look deep into the faculty performance appraisal and development systems in this blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s an environment where students have fear [and are] doubting themselves. Through a faculty survey and a review of syllabi, Dadgar and her team found a number of practices that were particularly helpful to Black and Latinx students in gateway math courses. These instructors don’t go out of their way to support students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dr. Anna Lees While many TCUs are smaller institutions, TCUs often offer a culturally relevant learning environment that is absent in larger predominantly white institutions (PWIs). These opportunities are interdisciplinary in nature and emphasize Indigenous languages, cultures, and learning.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

Register Now Date & Time: Tuesday, May 14th at 2 pm ET Faculty burnout and turnover continue to be significant challenges for colleges and universities, and these ongoing issues can limit the overall success of institutions. One of the keys to addressing them is through a multilevel, strategic focus on improving faculty well-being.

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PeopleAdmin

JULY 7, 2023

In the last few years, the HigherEd landscape has undergone significant changes, leading to challenges in faculty recruitment and retention. In a recent webinar, Best Practices for Faculty Recruitment and Retention , experts broke down some of the top challenges and solutions for both hiring and retaining faculty.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Astrobiologists explore Mars’s potential for life, acknowledging inseparable connections between Martian environments and Earth-based life. Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004).

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 20, 2024

These insights will provide you, as a stakeholder, educator, or administrator, with the means to cultivate a flourishing learning environment in the long run. Strategy 2: Regular Faculty Development Maintaining your faculty's professional growth and ongoing training is revolutionary.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? AI offers many potential applications for faculty work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Jenkins, who is Associate Provost for Faculty Development and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of South Carolina said that the power of Hip-Hop can't simply be reduced to music. In the opening keynote to the conference, Dr. In her powerful closing keynote, Dr. Toby S.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

Integral to these efforts, the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) designed and delivered several faculty development opportunities focusing on research-based teaching and learning strategies that support student mental health and well-being. References and Resources Almog, N. 2019) How to avoid cognitive overload during learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Astrobiologists explore Mars’s potential for life, acknowledging inseparable connections between Martian environments and Earth-based life. Additionally, it encourages collaboration, teamwork, and effective communication among students and faculty from various disciplines (Weinberg & Harding, 2004).

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Students Faculty Higher Education Engineering 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. The social environment of the group can be enjoyable and exciting for several students compared to independent study or traditional classroom or online lecturing. TEM Journal, 12 (3), 1772-1785.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Instructors who use a Lightboard to teach difficult concepts to asynchronous online students also bring resident faculty expertise to the online space, non-dependent on the course facilitator. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I’ve been doing faculty development around teaching for almost two decades, and most faculty benefit from having someone help them think through their teaching choices, particularly as they’re adopting new pedagogy. ” Bruff continued, “Part of this is matching [and] making the most of it.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Luc Jacquet, 2005) likely remember the image of the frozen egg, which captures the hardships faced by penguins trying to survive and reproduce in their inhospitable environment—the movie’s underlying theme. Similarly, those who have seen the documentary March of the Penguins (dir. Schwartz, K. 2015, July 15).

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Creatrix Campus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It also leads to a 20% boost in institutional effectiveness, fostering a dynamic learning environment. Suggestions: Conduct faculty workshops on the application of Bloom's Taxonomy. Encourage faculty collaboration for outcome definition. Talk with faculty members to comprehensively map the connection between PEOs and PLOs.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. The social environment of the group can be enjoyable and exciting for several students compared to independent study or traditional classroom or online lecturing. TEM Journal, 12 (3), 1772-1785.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Instructors who use a Lightboard to teach difficult concepts to asynchronous online students also bring resident faculty expertise to the online space, non-dependent on the course facilitator. Conclusion Lightboards continue to present an open opportunity for educational institutions to bring faculty expertise to the online setting.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Inclusive Teaching Sara Brownell, a professor of life sciences and director of the Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center at Arizona State University, studies how to make science learning environments more inclusive, with a focus on concealable, stigmatized identities. The hold of the power structures in higher ed is very strong.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Inclusive Teaching Sara Brownell, a professor of life sciences and director of the Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center at Arizona State University, studies how to make science learning environments more inclusive, with a focus on concealable, stigmatized identities. The hold of the power structures in higher ed is very strong.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million faculty, over half of which are either tenured or on tenure track. 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.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Anyone reading this article probably bases their teaching on learner-centeredness and may even aspire to create a transformative learning environment in their classroom. Similarly, the increasing number of international students in my classes brings advantages, but it also challenges my ability to establish a cohesive classroom environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most notably, it must be clear that each institution has an environment in which Latino students can thrive. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Dr. Erika D.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million faculty, over half of which are either tenured or on tenure track. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Anyone reading this article probably bases their teaching on learner-centeredness and may even aspire to create a transformative learning environment in their classroom. Similarly, the increasing number of international students in my classes brings advantages, but it also challenges my ability to establish a cohesive classroom environment.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Her recent book, “ Creating Inclusive Online Communities : Practices that Support and Engage Diverse Students ” focuses on how to better support college students in online learning environments. We got the chance to ask Dr. Berry a few questions about her work: What led you to this research? I started my doctoral program in 2013.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment.

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