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Seven ways to leverage faculty development for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Esther Jones Dr. 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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Why supporting faculty mental health is enormous for classrooms

University Business

The key to unlocking student engagement and success may have as much to do with how faculty curate a successful social-emotional learning environment as their ability to instruct, says Karen G. Foley, president and CEO of JPA Chicago, a mental health nonprofit, on “The University Business Podcast.”

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The end of in-person learning? Setting higher ed’s online goals for 2025

University Business

Strategic planning for online education goals As universities face increasing pressuresrising operational costs, heightened competition and shifting student expectationsonline education presents a promising avenue for scalability and financial sustainability.

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Report: Faculty development courses raise educator and student achievement

University Business

Your faculty may be made up of world-renowned professors, but that doesn’t mean students are grasping the material. Unless those educators are naturally talented, you may want to consider enrolling them in a faculty development course if they are student-facing. One new report proves the efficacy of doing just that.

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It Makes a Difference When Teachers Care

Faculty Focus

“While we know a great deal about the kinds of faculty-student interactions students experience, the benefits of faculty-student interaction, and predictors of student-faculty interactions, we know little about what students themselves value in their interactions with faculty.” (p. They used an interesting data pool.

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A Big Chunk of Professors Flunked U of Florida Post-Tenure Review

Inside Higher Ed

The American Association of University Professors has had a stance on them going back to 1983, and in 1999 it released a report saying they should be for “faculty development” and not “undertaken for the purpose of dismissal.” At Florida State, by contrast, all professors passed muster.