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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment, AAUP makes clear that there is an ever-increasing reliance on contingent faculty. Also, the number of graduate student employees increased 44% from fall 2002 to fall 2021. colleges and universities.

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

The Scholarly Teacher

For example, in a chemistry course, a weekly big question is, “What is stoichiometry and how do I know when to use it?” Starter Questions (Community Building) What and Why: Starter questions were utilized to create a sense of belonging and a trusting space for sharing. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.) link] Barkley, E. F., & Major, C.H.

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Higher Education’s Moment: Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Equity

Supporting Student Success

The goal of critical theories is to be “concerned in particular with issues of power and justice and the ways that the economy; matters of race, class, and gender; ideologies; discourses; education; religion and other social institutions; and cultural dynamics interact to construct a social system” (Kincheloe & McLaren, 2002, p.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

However, the stress response undermines and utilizes limited executive cognitive functions which are necessary for learning and the demonstration of what one has learned, which can result in reduced academic performance at toxic levels (Owens et al., For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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Positive Psychology – It’s More Than Optimism

NACADA

Although it was coined in 1998 by Martin Seligman, the then-president of the American Psychological Association, only in 2002 did it gain notice in the higher education realm after becoming one of the most popular classes taught at Harvard University (Ben-Shahar, 2007).

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How CSCU is Building Strong Institutional Foundations: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 176 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

The Change Leader, Inc.

He is the author of two novels, Sons of Heaven (2002), and Deep in the Mountains (2007), as well as numerous published short stories and essays. Cheng, a first-generation student, earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Binghamton University and an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami, where he was a James Michener Fellow.

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Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment: Changing Higher Ed Podcast with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Bob Massa and Bill Conley

The Change Leader, Inc.

Is there, and we know there’s some institutions like the FEN group in Boston that have shared utilities and, other overheads, to lower some costs, they’re not so anxious or willing to do something more in terms of sharing academics.