Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. 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). 2022; Nworie,2021).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

As higher education professionals, we are still struggling to process the convergence of crises, fear, and violence we have witnessed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe many faculty have not had the time, space, or support to process feelings of grief and loss.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

Faculty learning communities (FLC) as an approach to improving pedagogy have their roots in 1979 when the first FLC was launched at Miami University by Dr. Milton D. FLCs provide faculty with the chance to work in a trans-disciplinary fashion on matters of importance to a cohort or a particular topic for the cohort to work on.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

As higher education professionals, we are still struggling to process the convergence of crises, fear, and violence we have witnessed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe many faculty have not had the time, space, or support to process feelings of grief and loss.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 7, 2024

Post-tenure reviews aren’t a new phenomenon in higher education. 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.”

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

I wholeheartedly believe that HyFlex is the future of higher education, but I also believe that many professors are intimidated by the time required to learn, design and build these types of courses efficiently and effectively.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. Some senior faculty are not able to fill their course loads during in-person traditional timeframes. This has had some real impacts.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Meeting for Learning revisited: Trailing Quaker crumbs through the wilderness of higher education. The post Embracing the Silence appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Birkel, ed., The Inward Teaching: Essays to Honor Paul A. Richmond, Indiana: The Earlham College Press.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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ACRLog

APRIL 29, 2024

In this second post, Daisy Benson and Melissa Bowles-Terry reflect and share their perspectives on the changing roles of librarians in higher education. After a decade as a librarian, I left libraries for a while and was director of faculty development at UNLV, in the provost’s office.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Perry Shaw EdD is honorary research associate at Morling College, Australia, and author of Transforming Theological Education. PhD is Professor of Christian Higher Education, PhD and EdD Programs in Educational Studies, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. Orbelina Eguizabal E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

Illinois State University will be launching an online seminar series to help teach faculty how to create inclusive and equitable classes. People are working to understand what ‘equitable’ means for their courses,” said Dr. Deneca Avant, interim assistant vice president for faculty development, diversity, and learning. .

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and institutions’ sudden pivot to remote instruction, online learning remains entrenched in the higher education landscape. What was once considered a temporary lifeline is now a fundamental part of higher education. It’s also viable at large university systems.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Adapt or die. It’s what they do.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

He was appointed as fellow to help bolster Brown’s efforts and relationships with HBCUs, according to Brown officials, who added that he will create a consortium of partner schools for research, faculty development, student opportunities, and bolstering the number of HBCU undergraduates attending graduate school.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

From student retention to faculty performance, keeping an eye on the right metrics is what separates thriving institutions from those that struggle to keep up. Vice Chancellor's Responsibilities in Higher Education Your key responsibilities and authorities are simply huge!

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Career Readiness has become a valued currency in todays higher education sector, not only because it helps ease entry into the workforce but also serves to more deeply bind education with employment. Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 1 (1), 25-48. link] National Center for Education Statistics.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Many faculty already use an LMS, but how they use it is important. In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. So how do we begin to address these concerns?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is especially true for higher education. As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2024

. • Vision for the future of AI in business education and its impact on graduate employability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dr. Alex Redcorn In higher education, we have inherited problematic and pernicious status quos focused on Eurocentric learning for Euro-American audiences toward social assimilation. that offer opportunities for postsecondary education at certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, and master’s degree levels.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

Digital Learning in Higher Education Enhances Student Achievement admin Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:03 Overview Digital Learning in Higher Education calls for change in the educational ecosystem which will lead to significant improvement in the productivity of the students. Let’s ponder more in this blog.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. To truly support student success, we must move beyond the metrics and prioritize the human connections that make higher education meaningful. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Many faculty already use an LMS, but how they use it is important. In creating a course shell, regardless of the course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, or online), it can be helpful to understand the things that students find most frustrating (and most helpful) about faculty use of the LMS. So how do we begin to address these concerns?

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Scott has been appointed assistant provost for faculty development and diversity at Yale University. Scott Lakia M. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in communications at Texas Southern University, an M. in curriculum and instruction at Prairie View A&M University, and a Ph.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our three-part series on the New Higher Education Governance Model, we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

In terms of benefits for faculty, microlectures encourage professors to break down concepts and explain them in a clear and concise fashion (Scagnoli, 2012). Finally, microlectures allow faculty to create a library of reusable content (Scagnoli, 2012). There are many different tools that faculty can use to create microlectures.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is especially true for higher education. As educators, in order to advance our assessment methods so that it serves the learning of our students, it’s important to prioritize aligning the intended learning outcomes with assessment tasks. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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