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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: There’s a lot to like about proposed changes to West Virginia University’s appointment, tenure and promotion guidelines, from a faculty rights perspective. But the same draft is alarming to some faculty members at WVU. This is too onerous a mandate where tenure is not on the line, some critics argue.

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Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. Increased faculty communication and outreach began with the fruitful communications participants had with other members of the CCLP Roadrunner cohort.

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and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019). As Gonzalez completes his graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, he is preparing to defend his dissertation before departing for a faculty position this fall at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Fang recently published a paper, titled “Historical Information and Beliefs About Racial Inequality,” that addresses whether learning about history can prompt individuals to think in systemic ways about issues like racial inequality. White began teaching at Syracuse in 2017. Before that, the Columbia Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. Many faculty members say it’s this level of input that keeps them at Oberlin. ” Faculty members, Neilson continued, “are on the ground.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Now, as more institutions move toward sustainable investment , a group of faculty is calling on its pension fund to go green. She said the victory at her own institution made her more confident in pushing for divestment from TIAA, a sentiment she’s heard from other faculty supporters of TIAA divestment. trillion pension fund.

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MARCH 22, 2023

” “Not yet, but I have a lot of ideas …” This is a representative sample of faculty responses to the question “If you have successfully integrated use of ChatGPT into your classes, how have you done so?” ” “I will do this in the future.” ” “Yes.” ” “No way.”

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, established by Insight Into Diversity magazine in 2012, was created to recognize and celebrate the exemplary work of colleges and universities committed to advancing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles.

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PACANSKY-BROCK: When I was getting my master’s degree in art history, I… EDTECH: How did you become interested in humanizing online classrooms?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Faculty, like University of Illinois history professor David Sepkoski, add music to their lesson plans as a demonstration or reference point. Other faculty members create a playlist that coincides with course content for students to enjoy as they’re completing work. Leave it to a professor to make music a learning moment.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

billion research enterprise; created a Campus Safety Commission; and appointed a special commission to look at the UNC’s history with race. In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013.

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APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. Last year, he hired another faculty person.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s what happened: last week, Richard Sweet, Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and AHA president, published his monthly column in Perspectives on History , an association publication. The column, titled “ Is History History? also in the name of unity.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Crash Course, an educational YouTube channel with more than 14 million subscribers, once prompted Wired magazine to ask, “ Why isn’t school this cool? history and human communication. ASU has addressed that perennial concern in its current initiative by including its faculty in course development.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

” Administrative appointments, unlike tenured faculty positions, can generally be revoked at any time without cause. But abrupt terminations can prove disruptive for remaining faculty and staff members and students, so (for this reason and others) they’re rare. I’m bitterly disappointed by the board’s decision.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. It’s about our tribal sovereignty — how can you be sovereign if you don’t speak your language, know who you are, know your culture, your history?” The creation of this Ph.D.

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MARCH 27, 2023

As the controversy continued, faculty members overwhelmingly issued a vote of no confidence in Bergeron’s leadership in early March. I care deeply—and I always have—for the success of our faculty, the well-being of our staff, and above all, the intellectual, social, and professional development of our students.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The third point decried “top-down approaches,” the fourth said shared governance with faculty was “imperiled” and the last called for a pause on “some initiatives (such as the new academic dean structure).” ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway. “It’s open to all Meredith College employees, and that includes adjunct faculty and part-time staff—it’s a wide variety of people who participate,” Schurer said. Optional excursions are available for a fee.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. Most universities and colleges continue to occupy large land bases and are maintained by taxing those stolen lands.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image: Professors at the University of Arizona are demanding information regarding an alleged list of faculty members deemed too troublesome to serve on a key faculty governance committee. CAFT is charged with dealing with faculty employment concerns and internal grievances.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Their efforts to build faculty-staff coalitions and improve working conditions despite lacking university recognition or contracts harkens back to higher education organizing before the Cold War. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.” To become the first African American governor in Maryland’s history, the third African American governor in U.S. Natasha A.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

” is largely associated with the Crimson Tide, one of the most successful football programs in NCAA history. In March 2021, she, along with other members of the Black Faculty and Staff Association, officially requested that the university remove the word “Dixie” from the lyrics. ” is.).

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MARCH 7, 2023

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. This would include eliminating practices such as preferences for legacies and the children of donors and faculty members.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Ojibwe immersion house, now home to eight students, was founded as a pilot program by faculty members in the Ojibwe language program in fall 2020. Faculty members in the Dakota language program launched a similar student housing initiative this fall. Both languages have few remaining speakers. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell. Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr. Another current project is a short film that will document the stories of women who have been part of the JCSU faculty and staff for over 30 years. says Lima-Neves. “Dr.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

An FAQ on working at the university says, “PBA does not offer tenure; all beginning faculty sign a one-year letter of agreement. ” Editorial Tags: Faculty Image Source: Palm Beach Atlantic U Image Caption: Samuel Joeckel Is this diversity newsletter? The university does not offer tenure. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Image: Patty Limerick, co-founder and longtime faculty director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West, says her firing last week continues to shock her, especially as she had been planning to step down soon anyway. " Personal vs. Professional. ” Limerick co-founded the center in 1986.

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MAY 19, 2023

Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there. Rutgers AAUP-AFT – it represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors – went on strike from April 10 to April 14, 2023, Givan said.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. A headline from New York magazine in 2018 is representative, proclaiming, “UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away.

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APRIL 6, 2023

Some recent expansion efforts have met with pushback from CSU faculty members. A CSU faculty leader told Inside Higher Ed he has concerns about using state dollars to bolster baccalaureate programs that might exist elsewhere. But duplication shouldn’t be an issue, according to the authors of the report.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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