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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Anchors Away: Building Community, Mindfulness, Equity, and Reflection

The Scholarly Teacher

Two second-year tenure-track faculty from the Philosophy and Religion Department spoke about class discussions (chapter 11) and how they manage controversial subjects within class discussions. How (Lecture): When thinking through the content of a course, focus on ways to increase interactivity. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.) Brookfield, S.

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He said Columbia seriously considered female candidates prior to the hiring of outgoing President Lee Bollinger in 2002. One part of the problem is that the boards of these institutions look more like the management committees of Goldman Sachs and McKinsey than they do America.

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Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

SRHE

Also, the IoE top brass who had negotiated the merger deal (“Don’t worry, it’ll work out just fine”) would move on, and their replacements would be appointed by UCL to manage what had become just another UCL faculty. I usually replied that there would be good news and bad news. I think I’ve been proved right.

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CBE Learning Platform Architecture White Paper

eLiterate

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of consulting for the Education Design Lab (EDL) on their search for a Learning Management System (LMS) that would accommodate Competency-Based Education (CBE). By 2002, I had given up, writing instead about instructional design techniques to make recyclable learning objects.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a 2020 book entitled The Purpose-Driven University , Debbie Haski-Leventhal, a professor of Management at Macquarie University and a scholar of corporate social responsibility, argues that the universities need to become more mission, vision, and value focused and to place a greater emphasis to their social impact.

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A quiet, unnoticed form of gentle solidarity

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Neil is Widening Participation Manager, and this post is part of our Learning and Teaching Conference Hot Topic. Classism, as Bernice Lott (2002) writes, results in students being excluded, devalued, discounted and separated. He has strategic oversight and management of a number of self-generated community projects. Piketty, T.