Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Alesia Jennings , Western Carolina University April Tallant , Western Carolina University Key Statement: A six-anchor model to boost new faculty teaching self-efficacy was developed, providing practical applications for faculty development programs and individual course design. Six anchor model of Faculty Forward.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. 2023, August 10).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Can you enlighten us?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She held schooling in high esteem, and she made sure her children had library cards and took them to the library. As soon as Vassar was old enough to get to the library on her own, she checked out all the books she could get her hands on. In 2023, the trustees elected her the board chair. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

Her book, The Golden Gate , released in September 2023, is both historical fiction and a mystery, a blend of Chua’s varied interests. In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, of course, those professions include communication, journalism, hotel and restaurant management, library science, nursing, psychology, social work, and much more. The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. It allows senior faculty to cede (i.e. Priorities conflict. Apparently not.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 27, 2025

Faculty Champion Award Individual award to highlight a faculty member who has contributed to the scholarship or teaching of Student Affairs assessment. In Spring 2024, the Basic Needs Program partnered with UO Libraries to address the issue of textbook affordability. Recipient: Sakshi Gupta at Adelphi University Ms.

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CU Work-Life Balance

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Get up to speed with LinkedIn Learning For faculty and staff who’d like to get up to speed on the basics of AI, or those who already have a familiarity with the tools and want to learn how to use them more effectively, LinkedIn Learning offers many courses focused on learning the basics of AI and using AI tools intelligently and effectively.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? As David spent the last 40 years working as an academic librarian and the last 20 years as a library dean, his critique carries some weight. These may not be the most prestigious or richest libraries.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. link ) Commonfund Institute (2023). 2023 higher education price index. 2023, August 10). 2023, November 13). Friedman, J. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639.

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 28, 2024

A new round of UM OER Grants (up to $10,000) is available to help faculty and instructors create digital, open access course materials. Through the Advance Open Ed 2023-24 project, UM Libraries provided financial and practical assistance for the creation of nine open educational resources (OER) publications.

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SRHE

APRIL 22, 2025

Under the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Act of 2023, both Universities create their own Statutes. This seems to be where the Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement fits, as approved by the Executive Group in 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and placed under the heading of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion(revised in 2022, 2023 and 2024).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Dr. Jabani Bennett Bennett began their tenure in 2023 with priorities that included breathing life into the new organizational mission, operationalizing the intersectional feminist and antiracist goals of the center, and co-creating leadership succession plans.

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CU Work-Life Balance

APRIL 24, 2023

Eligible faculty, staff and GME residents have until 5 p.m. (MT) MT) May 5 to update or enroll in their chosen health plans for the 2023-24 plan year. The CU Advantage is a library of information on all CU’s benefits, perks, resources and discounts. The final page of this year’s Open Enrollment is drawing near.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s particularly true among many staff roles, as opposed to faculty or management. For colleges that only have one library, the next step up for the head of the library is likely a very different job. The issue is a bit more nuanced for faculty when they can rise from assistant to associate to full professor.

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EAB

APRIL 10, 2023

These types of content are frequently successful: Student takeovers covering major campus events or day-in-the-life experiences Application and student tips from your enrollment staff Campus fun facts and traditions Micro lessons from engaging faculty members Get more ideas from other university accounts in our recent blog post.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

The average cost of textbooks for undergraduates and graduate students per academic year, along with increases in textbook and course materials from 2011 to 2023 AY, according to Melanie Hansen’s report for the The Education Data Initiative. Through NCOER, a searchable library of materials by submit can be found here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

And for other academics who might want to consider an alternative path to a traditional tenure track faculty career, what advice can you share? When I completed a PhD more than a decade ago, I considered pursuing a traditional faculty role but couldn’t imagine leaving the path I was already on. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Plus, how current students, faculty, administration, and overall staff engage with the campus has changed. Research takes place just as often in a student’s room as in the library,” the report reads. At the same time, campus expansion has remained flat for a third year as enrollment has ebbed. “Employees work remotely.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In fiscal year 2023, that number was $92,254,915, a decline of $22,494,105 (19.6%). While it is also true that state appropriations rose over that same period by $7,740,082, this increase was due primarily to legislative salary increases for faculty and staff (essentially a pass through) and earmarks for special and capital projects (e.g.,

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Faculty should assume that the students who do have formal accommodations have jumped through so many hoops to get them, and these accommodations are not giving them a leg up. That's something that I think a lot of faculty don't quite understand because they've never been through this process. It's giving them a fair shot.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

I recently attended a collegewide discussion of ChatGPT’s teaching implications, and I was struck by the exasperated faculty participants’ intense and insistent negativism. Yet to my mind, the platform, even in its current form, is an asset that faculty would be remiss not to leverage. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cady Short-Thompson of Northern Kentucky University is returning to the university that kickstarted her career in faculty and administration, tasked with pulling it out of a budget deficit and enrollment hole. In 2023, she oversaw the merger of three public institutions into the newly formed Vermont State University.

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EAB

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The good news is parents of alumni, community members, and the dedicated faculty and staff at your institution all represent promising contributors. Faculty and Staff Through teaching, research, administration, and student support, faculty and staff members possess an intimate understanding of your institution's mission.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 22, 2024

With world-class faculty and unsurpassed facilities, students learn to be visual communicators who actively use art and design toward the betterment of society. CCS, located in midtown Detroit, strives to provide students with the tools needed for successful careers in the dynamic and growing creative industries.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

So there’s a real paradigm shift among institutional staff, faculty. Melanie Booth (04:46.334) So the Higher Learning Commission launched an innovation division in 2023 called the Credential Lab. There’s policies. There’s who owns curriculum and who decides what learning is and where it comes from.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The alliance has brought together experts, faculty, and staff from some of the most highly respected colleges in America to collaborate on developing and achieving equity goals with a focus on case studies, strategies, and practical approaches.

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Goucher DEI

JANUARY 24, 2012

Students, faculty, and staff are working together to transform how our community collectively remembers and engages with Indigenous erasure and the history of slavery and racial injustice in Maryland. The exhibit will open in August 2023 and remain open for the entire academic year.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

May 16, 2023. The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. DC: And I'll add on to that, even more so with the faculty component. Students may, you know, they're going to see their faculty more than they see their academic advisor.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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The Student Affairs Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To VCU Faculty and Staff: Creating a positive environment for learning is essential to the VCU community. All VCU faculty and staff asked to take a moment to read the VCU Alcohol and Other Drug Policy in the online VCU Policy Library. Alcohol and other drugs can interfere with academic success and campus safety.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition Dr. King assembled a diverse and powerful coalition of individuals from various departments and disciplines, including academic staff, faculty, administrators, and students, all working together towards a common goal—improving retention and graduation rates for minoritized students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. Notable among these are faculty departures and a discernible decline in academic standards.

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

Case in point Share the data, good and bad, in an open forum like a faculty meeting or training. Other steps include a resource library with a documented data request workflow, and/or removing sensitive information or PII from reports or dashboards unless it is required. Here’s what we learned.

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