Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 19, 2024

Cornell University communication professor Monica Cornejo was arrested for disorderly conduct Tuesday during a campus seminar led by conservative media personality Ann Coulter, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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MindMax

JUNE 6, 2023

I used to run seminars for teachers and corporate trainers, and in those seminars, I would ask the question: “How many of you are not great at math?” Listen first—then take action It’s important to acknowledge that admitting to an uncomfortable truth isn’t the same as taking action. Half the hands would go up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

Harvard University is partnering with Clark Atlanta University to help cultivate and empower the next generation of leaders at historically Black colleges and universities through its Harvard Seminar for New Presidents. The immersion includes the in-person Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, comprising ELI Presidential Fellows.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

What 75+ cabinet leaders learned about responding to grievances on campus at EAB's Compassionate Leadership Seminar Over the past few months, over 75 college and university cabinet leaders have gone through EAB’s Compassionate Leadership Seminar. Megan Adams: First of all, who has been attending this seminar? Provosts, too.

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HEPI

AUGUST 22, 2024

But now, a Master’s seminar in the disciplines that we both teach typically involves a cohort in which three-quarters of the students (and often more) are from a single country, a few are international students from elsewhere and one or two are home students. The teaching experiences that we summarise here are very common.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Applicants should explain how they shared their pedagogical innovation with the public, which may include one or more of the following: Presentation at a seminar, workshop, or other form of public appearance, or Publication (or acceptance for publication) in a refereed journal, or Other form of communication.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

BY BILL BERGMAN Recently, I participated in an experiment that had several first-year seminar (FYS) instructors attend each other’s classes. It was an effort to see if we could improve our teaching techniques by observing colleagues. My first visit was to a FYS class in physics.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Many colleges and universities have well-developed systems and supports for new students, from specialized orientations to dedicated first-year seminars and cohort-based models that help students feel connected to the institution. But what happens after the first year?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2024

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. Additionally, the role of lead student rotates around the seminar group throughout the semester/module.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It starts with a first-year seminar program. A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. 272) An analysis of the reflection papers students (in five seminar sections) wrote after the exam revealed five themes. The first and “perhaps most important” (p.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That's significantly less than some other area institutions pay: Barnard College recently increased its adjunct pay to $11,500 from $10,000 per seminar, and New York University bumped its per-course adjunct pay to $10,400. Part-time faculty pay at the New School varies, but some professors say they make around $4,000 per course.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By Kelly Field University of Maine Students in the University of Maine’s “Explore What You Eat” Research Learning Experience seminar learn about the production of pasta dishes as part of their hands-on exercises in food science. An unusual program for first-year students aims to support their success and keep them enrolled.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

. “On the master’s program in our departments, only a very small number of students typically have the English language skills necessary for engaging in meaningful seminar discussions,” according to the academics.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

A key initiative this November was bringing students from TU Dortmunds Dlab programan interdisciplinary entrepreneurial program to participate in a seminar at IIT Bombays Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. In the future, Adelphi officials plan to expand some of its interdisciplinary learning into first-year seminars, capturing students earlier in their undergraduate careers. Tell us about it.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

You Can’t Tell a Quilt by Its Cover Elizabeth Redden Sat, 11/11/2023 - 09:07 AM Laura Skandera Trombley reflects on the artful stitching together of a first-semester first-year seminar. Byline(s) Laura Skandera Trombley

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The program – one of four such programs in the nation and the first in California – will span 17 months, with seven online classes, two one-week classes on campus, and one travel seminar. The first cohort will start next fall.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

First-year seminar instructors can leverage the five whys during a discussion of study strategies or a discussion of reflection as students think about their transitional experience. Sarah Forbes, PhD, is the director of student academic success and a first-year seminar instructor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Evaluate” (p.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, one successful practice I have used is offering an in-person or virtual seminar during the first or second week after a course begins on the required writing style, along with reviewing the expectations with them. Faculty can even create a quiz for learners who attended the seminar.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Program for Leadership and Character already offers scholarships, courses, seminars, speakers and retreats to Wake Forest students. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The five-course concentration will require one 100- or 200-level introductory gateway course, a 400-level senior seminar with a capstone project, and three electives across at least two academic divisions. The fact that it won’t, because it just got passed today, is proving my doubts wrong… It’s very happy and very surreal.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. Additionally, the role of lead student rotates around the seminar group throughout the semester/module.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Many colleges and universities around the country offer First-Year Seminars (FYS) or First-Year Experiences (FYE). My recent opportunity to teach a First-Year Seminar was educational for both me and my students. Offer choice and connections One of the beneficial experiences in our First-Year Seminar was the book clubs.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Robert Van de Noort says vice-chancellors must be bold in protecting academic freedom and promoting diversity of thought Universities risk becoming “uniformities” of rigid ideas and self-censorship, according to the vice-chancellor of the University of Reading, who accused the government and his fellow university leaders of creating echo chambers on (..)

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will be spent over five years to support the Pharmacy Community College Connect (PC3) and McKesson Foundation Health Equity Seminar Series initiatives. The U-M College of Pharmacy also received about $1.5

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2023

Compact teaching timetables, where lectures and seminars are scheduled over two or three days rather than dotted throughout the week, are being introduced by a number of institutions. The move makes it easier for the growing number of undergraduates who have to take on part-time jobs to make ends meet.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The business school leader can create mentor plans for junior faculty; organize seminars on research and research funding; and organize other activities such as brown-bag seminars or writing clubs. Other activities. To achieve the newer, higher research culture level: Take action that builds academic citizenship.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 19, 2024

First-year seminar instructors can leverage the five whys during a discussion of study strategies or a discussion of reflection as students think about their transitional experience. Sarah Forbes, PhD, is the director of student academic success and a first-year seminar instructor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Evaluate” (p.

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The PIE News

JUNE 27, 2024

In addition to this, phase four of the initiative will seek to raise awareness of key aspects of the European Strategy for Universities and initiatives linked to the establishment of the European Education Area through annual seminars on EU policy.

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MindMax

MAY 22, 2024

I went on to start my own company, where I facilitated and ran week-long, intensive seminars for teachers and corporate trainers on the nature of learning and how to create better learning environments. The experience ended up being quite formative. I knew from that point forward that building relationships mattered to me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

Two large buildings on the university’s main campus, where students attend hundreds of lectures and seminars each academic year, will be closed owing to concrete degradation and the corrosion of steel reinforcements that support the structures. Continue reading.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a result, their efforts to reduce cheating have focused on creating first-year orientations or seminars on academic integrity, or on instituting deterrent measures like suspensions or expulsions for cheaters who are caught. First-year orientations and seminars do no good because it won’t change the culture of cheating in colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The end goal, he said, is to create a “system and network within institutions focused on creating the highest quality of access for Black students.”

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HEPI

MAY 29, 2023

Do you turn in for that nine o’clock lecture and seminar? And there is the dinner party test; if you proudly state that your son or daughter is going to Edge Hill, the institution is winning the perceptual battle, if you simply say “university” and clam up, the University is not. Studying and Staying At University It’s November.

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