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Columbia College Chicago Names Dr. Shantay N. Bolton as First Woman of Color President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bolton comes to Columbia from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she serves as executive vice president of administration and finance and chief business officer. Prior to Georgia Tech, Bolton held administrative positions at Washington University in St. At Georgia Tech, she managed a $3.1

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies.

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Service Excellence Programme: Programme and Course Information Management (PCIM)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The project had several outcomes, including fantastic examples of student and staff engagement, enhanced course descriptors, and revised policies, which laid important ground work for the current PCIM project. Lee Carlton Lee is a Business Partner for the Student Administration and Support strand of the Service Excellence Programme.

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Support at scale: School-wide support for postgraduates who teach

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The recruitment , payment and administration of tutors and demonstrators were the three main areas of focus throughout the review. This method has proved to help match supply to demand and improve and iron out any administrative inefficiencies. The new process has been supported with the recruitment of a dedicated administrator.

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Mini-series: Blogging to build community – Stories from Nursing Studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Bethany Easton Bethany is the Marketing and Communications Administrator for the School of Health in Social Science. Photo credit: University Image Gallery, Sam Sills. We then we build each other up by pausing to read, appreciating, congratulating and sharing one another’s latest and greatest, biggest or smallest achievements. Apr 10, 2019

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Barriers included lack of trust in the University administration, concerns about mental health and well-being, as well as a desire for a sense of belonging. Potential benefits included enhanced learning, gaining new perspectives, increased feelings of belonging, and developing personal agency leading to better mental health and well-being.

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Mini-series: Using the academic blogging service in the Clinical Education and Digital Cultures course

Teaching Matters Online Learning

While many students found it helpful, it involved a significant administrative burden and there was an ongoing concern that it relied on an unusual support arrangement.