Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Bienvenu, SJ, Distinguished Chair in Humanities, and Professor and Co-Chair of Languages and Cultures at Loyola University New Orleans joined Dr. Carolin Aronis, an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, to call attention to the dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents on campuses over the last few years.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” Three camps On most campuses, faculty fall into three camps: those who want to “lock and block” AI (just stay out of the water!) It’s time to get in the water.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2023

An interesting exercise we do during our faculty development program is reminisce about the very first day we taught as a teacher. Dr. Jayanti Dutta is faculty in the Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, India.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” Three camps On most campuses, faculty fall into three camps: those who want to “lock and block” AI (just stay out of the water!) It’s time to get in the water.

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

An interesting exercise we do during our faculty development program is reminisce about the very first day we taught as a teacher. Dr. Jayanti Dutta is faculty in the Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, India.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. 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. Episodic and semantic memory. Tulving & W. Academic Press.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018). References Hanstedt, Paul. Creating Wicked Students. Takayama, Kathy.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

Or think about the late Thomas Knorr, a physics professor at Wheeling Jesuit: he began his intro class by handing students a long, narrow piece of wood and asking them to develop a unit of measurement that they would then have to use all term (Hanstedt, 2018). References Hanstedt, Paul. Creating Wicked Students. Takayama, Kathy.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. 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. Episodic and semantic memory. Tulving & W. Academic Press.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

From the initial job interview until the faculty portfolio is submitted, tenure-track professors shed the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears worrying they won’t make the grade. There are numerous journals that prey on faculty needs for publications. The tenure binder tells a story, the story of who you are as a faculty member.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer. Some of the faculty who want a quick fix already “get it,” meaning they come in valuing diversity and inclusion and/or come in with a strong critical analysis (think antiracist, feminist, queer, critical disability, etc.).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

From the initial job interview until the faculty portfolio is submitted, tenure-track professors shed the proverbial blood, sweat, and tears worrying they won’t make the grade. There are numerous journals that prey on faculty needs for publications. The tenure binder tells a story, the story of who you are as a faculty member.

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EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

How to effectively manage people: Faculty, staff, and school leadership Independent school leaders are responsible for a host of management duties, including faculty recruitment, professional development, performance evaluations, and determining compensation, so it’s no surprise that people management was our most requested topic.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These cuts include cutting 28 majors and 143 faculty. Convincing faculty and other stakeholders to embrace new business models, pedagogies, and technologies requires a delicate balance of respect for academic values and the persuasive articulation of a new vision for the future. Faculty members, too, experienced a shift in perspective.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Accreditation from the HEC ensures that an institution meets a set of rigorous standards related to program quality, faculty qualifications, and student support services. The HEC also evaluates the institution's overall management and governance, including its financial stability, facilities, and human resources.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Below are a few of the key themes that appeared in multiple capstone projects from past participants. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a rigorous and comprehensive accreditation system that assesses the quality of an institution's management education, including its programs, faculty, research, and operations.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2023

Michael shares easy-to-understand analogies to explain how and why AI functions the way it does, the problems AI can solve in higher ed, the importance of not having AI replace but augment human workers in district processes, and the benefits and shortcomings of tools such as ChatGPT. This leads to automating this insight to refine itself.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. Evolving with a holistic approach is more important now than it’s ever been.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

It brings together scholars, thought leaders, and community advocates to identify, evaluate, and study pressing issues and develop sustainable means of change that will have a positive impact on Black life. “We Strayhorn, Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty , is being released in mid-July.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

MYFest therefore addressed Spelic’s call for professional development that “acknowledges [educators’] full humanity in the learning process.” Editorial Tags: Faculty Technology Image Source: Courtesy of Maha Bali Image Caption: #MYFest22 organizers participated in a planning session in February.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. She also presents regularly on topics related to pedagogy and faculty development. Mind Maps: New Perspectives.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 8, 2024

Every learner enjoys a mentor guiding them along their unique educational path—a level of personalization unattainable by human educators, especially when faced with larger class sizes. This opens a potential panoramic, data-fueled view of learner development that would have been impossible for even the most attentive human mentor.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. She also presents regularly on topics related to pedagogy and faculty development. Mind Maps: New Perspectives.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The other $100 million will be used to establish the Center for the Inclusive Digital Transformation of Africa, a hub for a network of at African universities across the continent that will receive funding for faculty development, cutting-edge technology and engineering programs, and other initiatives.

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