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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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Humanizing Online Learning with Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Continuous Learning Institute

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about the power of humanizing online learning for college students. In this episode, I interview Dr. 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.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al., Lightboards hold the potential to transform learning in the asynchronous online environment.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

What follows is a case study that can be adapted by a wide range of academic programs, such as faculty development centers, university learning centers, and writing centers. The ways humans write and research are changing, as they did when the internet was introduced.

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Leaders weigh in on why the time to improve faculty affairs is now

University Business

Joanna Brooks, Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success at San Diego State University, believes higher education leaders must reexamine their institutional structures to ensure the focus of faculty affairs goes beyond equipping staff with the tools to “survive the system.”

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