Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes.

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University Business

JANUARY 15, 2025

Colleges and universities are setting systemwide commitments to transition up to 75% of their dining hall offerings to plant-based options in the next three years, according to a new report from the Humane Society of the United States. Half of all meals offered at the University of Colorado Boulder, which ranked No.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2025

Jonathan Holloway has been named the new President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation, following his five-year presidency at Rutgers University. Holloway's appointment comes after his term as Rutgers' 21st president and first Black president in the university's 250-year history. His tenure saw both accomplishments and challenges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 10, 2024

Voluntary faculty and higher education staff turnover, excluding retirements, decreased in 2023–24 after two years of sharp rises, according to the latest survey data from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look). It’s about humans being human in the classroom, doing the complex, emotional, and messy labor that (as of right now) only we can do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Darden College of Education and Professional Studies is launching a program to help address disparities in the number of minorritized higher ed faculty. The priority deadline for applications for the two- to three-person initial cohort is Dec. The AACTE-affiliated program will start Spring 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English & Modern Languages, Anderson University (Indiana) Tenured: No Age: 32 Education: B.A., English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof.

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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But amidst the noise of online content and digital campaigns, it’s the human touch that truly resonates with prospective students and their families. Seeing facilities, meeting faculty, and getting a feel for the campus vibe help families assess fit and boost confidence in their decisions. How many plan to borrow?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. We communicate patiently to answer questions, specifically introduce our department, college, and university to others, and discuss pertinent issues.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 27, 2025

“As humans, we just love numbers, right?, When we see that a publication released their list of the top 100 universities, we say: Oh, cool, this college is here again that means they must be a really good school. Universities might not want to showcase everything. So what are the specific issues facing rankings?

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2024

Since University Business last reported a college closure ( Notre Dame College on Feb. University of Wisconsin system still faces serious financial challenges despite closing one campus and moving two online last October. Oak Point University (Ill.) Faculty were told they would not receive severance pay, WGN 9 reports.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” link] The post Human or AI?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English & Modern Languages, Anderson University (Indiana) Tenured: No Age: 32 Education: B.A., English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Those opportunities led Howard-Baptiste to Miami University in Ohio where she earned degrees in exercise science, health promotion, and a Ph.D. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; PhD. University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Aim for steady progress.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 19, 2024

I am the Gordon Levin Associate Professor of Diplomatic History at Amherst College where I teach classes on US foreign relations, politics , social movements and the history and politics of human rights. politics, foreign relations and human rights. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.A.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Yet, the administration is demanding that the teachers, librarians, and researchers who drive the universitys educational mission take real wage cuts. The Facts: Quality Education Requires Investment in Faculty The value of a University of Oregon degree depends on the quality of its professors, instructors, researchers, and librarians.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. Bringing all that together is really challenging our faculty and our deans to work together in new ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

Marlene Tromp The University of Vermont (UVM) Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Marlene Tromp as the institution's 28th president. Tromp, who is currently serving as president of Boise State University, will assume her new role later this summer. "Dr. from the University of Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Mone The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved budget cuts that include the recommended layoffs as part of an effort to mitigate its declining enrollment and financial challenges. Dr. Mark A.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards. Cook-Sather, A.,

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

That’s why our entire team is really excited about the Keynote Speaker for our upcoming Virtual Summit – Elements of Humanizing EdTech in Higher Education , which takes place February 27, 2025 (that’s next week for those of us still taking down Christmas decorations!). Higher education is at a crossroads.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 3, 2024

That’s a highlight from a new report the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), released Thursday. The number of women and people of color on the tenure track has increased over the past seven years, but they still aren’t being promoted at the same rate as white men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

nearly a decade ago, they had no idea that they would become the vanguard in leading and supporting a new generation of leadership within historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). “The idea was simply to create a space for individuals who were sincerely interested in committing their vocation and uplift to HBCUs. Innovation.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Part of the value of this reminder is to help students recognize that our goal for the course is not limited to academic learning but that we bring our whole selves into the classroom and our way of relating to each other should be a fully human one rather than merely instructional discourse. Faculty Focus. Faculty Focus.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

One way to incorporate human engagement is through a synchronous seminarnothing beats live interaction, where learners and educators can convene for a meaningful exchange. First, students and faculty both felt that spending time in the seminar was most beneficial in helping students gain greater understanding of the material for that unit.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

A 2020 Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of graduate students at 10 U.S. research universities found that 39% screened positive for anxiety symptoms. one for STEM and professional schools, the other for arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The council is composed of representatives from historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander-serving institutions, all institutions of higher education serving groups who have been marginalized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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