Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an exciting development, two prominent organizations in the higher education space, The Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) and Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) have joined together to enhance the landscape of higher education through collaboration and shared resources.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 24, 2019

Welcome to episode 5 of the Teaching Matters podcast: Blogging to enhance professional practice. The Teaching Matters podcast accompanies and complements the Teaching Matters blog, adding another space for students and staff to have conversations and debates around learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh.

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2024

If we know more about academics’ working lives, we are better placed to care for our colleagues and produce the kind of research and teaching our broader communities expect of us. Yet there is a notable lack of comprehensive research on the practicalities of academic work, particularly with respect to how we bring our ‘whole self’ to work.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

APRIL 25, 2023

The SAAL Blog is meant to be a place to highlight diverse voices and perspectives of assessment professionals from all skill levels. Over the course of the next year, you will hear from our blog writing team as we reflect on trends in assessment, respond to SAAL programs and events (i.e Now say hello to your blog writing team!

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 6, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, 200degrees, CC0 Every Wednesday in March and April, Teaching Matters will examine a different aspect of blogging as part of the Academic Blogging mini-series. Blogging also offers a number of pedagogical benefits within a University context (Kerawalla et al., or annotating text or other digital artefacts.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

As part of this new service, my colleague, Robert Chmielewski, and I have been working on a staff training workshop in the area of blogging for teaching and learning. In preparation, we chatted to a variety of our academic colleagues who are already using great blogs with their students to find out a bit about what they do.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We acknowledge the challenges assessment professionals face engaging with the multiple student affairs professional organizations. By uniting our efforts, we can streamline professional development, making sure that our collective expertise is leveraged effectively.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JUNE 3, 2024

Representatives from SAAL, the ACPA Commission for Assessment and Evaluation , and the NASPA Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community collaborated to collect and analyze over 100 syllabi provided to the research team. All but 5 syllabi either mentioned quantitative and qualitative together or mixed methods.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 4, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, markmags, CC0 Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters, which showcases findings from recent projects that research learning and teaching practices at the University of Edinburgh. Ideas about professional development for university teachers have also moved on.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs Faculty orientations and continuing a culture of mentoring January 31, 2023 Kristen McCauliff Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Ball State University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. In the second , I examined how to develop, structure, and staff an analytics organization. What might this look like?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They discuss the impact of participating in this student and staff-run project on their academic and professional development… UNCOVER UNCOVER (Usher Network for Covid-19 Evidence Reviews) is a research network run by University of Edinburgh staff, students and alumni across disciplines, producing up-to-date evidence on COVID-19 ( [link] ).

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 6, 2024

Let's look deep into the faculty performance appraisal and development systems in this blog. What Is the faculty performance appraisal and development system? Professional Development: Creating an environment where people are always trying to get better requires specific training and assistance.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are harsh truths—lies and secrets, guilt and shame—that we generally don’t want to admit. Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching. That our family or our marriage is dysfunctional. They don’t.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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NACADA

APRIL 17, 2024

This team began meeting monthly immediately following the 2023 annual conference, and you will get to hear from all of them in upcoming blogs. More details on what we discovered and all of our other hospitality plans will be in future blogs. In January, we visited Pittsburgh to tour the David L.

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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

Blogs Districts are still struggling with low reading proficiency. Researchers and experts recommend utilizing the science of reading as a proven proficiency and learning strategy. Further, many districts cannot afford the formal professional development programs that provide this knowledge.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet. Our units and service areas include credit programs, summer sessions, professional and community programs, online program services, a research hub, and a conference center.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MARCH 28, 2023

After the postsecondary level work for a decade, I started my professional career as a quantitative researcher at education policy research institutes and later as an assessment analyst at a higher education institution. Blog written by Eunkyoung Park, SAAL VP of Professional Learning and Development

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EAB

DECEMBER 13, 2022

EAB partners with more than 1,100 colleges and universities on enrollment strategy and conducts research on best practices and trends in recruitment. EAB Enrollment Blog. Subscribe to stay up-to-date on the latest research and recommendations from EAB. Researching and Planning School Visits. Campus tours. Financial aid.

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EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

Blogs Why advancement employees leave (and how leaders can fix it) By Brad Shafer Recent turnover in higher ed is historic and expansive. In my experience, those who receive equitable pay adjustments are thankful for the increase – but they are even more grateful that you researched and addressed it proactively.

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EAB

AUGUST 25, 2023

Blogs The five topics independent school leaders were most curious about in the past year Each year, EAB’s Dedicated Advisors pass scores of questions from independent school leaders to our AskEAB team. We found several categories of research were requested most often within this topic area: Human resources.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Image credit: University stock photo, Paul Dodds In this extra post, Majdouline El hichou, Research Assistant on the PTAS-funded project on ‘Co-Creating a Development Needs Analysis (DNA) for PGRs’, shares insights into the co-creation process, learnings from surveys and focus groups, and their implications for the new DNA.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 27, 2023

So this blog post is about how work within the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (CAHSS) seeks to assert, avow and attest ( antonyms of ‘negate’…) to the absolute importance of non-traditional learning. What it’s not Defining by negation is when you provide an instance of what something thing is not.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I’ve been working within assessment, research, and evaluation for over 15 years and I knew I had so much to give to this work. Blog written by Dr. Ellissa Brooks Nelson , SAAL VP of Profession Advancement With that, I accepted the nomination, I wrote up my statement for elections, and then I sat back and waited. We do this together.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 4, 2018

How can we support them to develop these capacities? To start to answer these questions, I got together with some fantastic colleagues from across the university* – including our project researcher, Rebekah Tauritz – to develop a project called “ Preparing Students to Face Wicked Problems ”. Oct 4, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 22, 2024

Dr Louise Connelly is a Lecturer in Academic Development, and Laura Wardrop is the CPD Manager for the Easter Bush Campus. The University offers a wide range of continuing professional development (CPD) resources and courses, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), on different platforms (EdX, Coursera, and Future Learn).

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. In many cases, partners jointly completed a project that benefitted both institutions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Student-led journal clubs on education allow them to present and discuss educational papers between themselves, and some do research projects on an education topic and have presented at conferences on their research or teaching experience. Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Photo attribution: vet school.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, I would consider several good examples from the Teaching Matters blog to be co-created, such as the Conservation Science course , Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World course, many examples of experiential education and place-based education , and creative learning and teaching with Lego. 2017), there are also many benefits!

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CAPD

AUGUST 24, 2023

Join your classmates for this year’s series of events from Career Advising & Professional Development tailored to sophomores, a collection of events that will help you make strategic career moves this fall. This workshop is a collaboration of the International Students Office and Career Advising and Professional Development.

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CAPD

AUGUST 22, 2023

Explore MIT’s career services: tour of Career Advising & Professional Development | Thurs, Aug 31, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm ( E17-294 ) During your time at MIT, you’ll likely need your resume reviewed, learn how to use a cover letter, finesse your LinkedIn profile, and network with employers.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This blog post explores the key elements of SAAL's strategic plan and how it has been executed to enhance student affairs assessment practices and help nurture a thriving community of individuals engaged in Student Affairs Assessment. This year, SAAL has taken a bold step forward with the implementation of its new strategic plan.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

AUGUST 15, 2024

Hello SAAL Blog readers! I joined the SAAL blog team after starting a new director role and, being new, I reached out to others who have been doing this work for a while. The director of this office at the time posted a position for a research associate and I had reached out to have a conversation about what she was looking for.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Invisibility continues to define transfer students’ experience, despite their presence in numbers: a quarter of students at public four-year colleges nationwide are transfers and approximately one-third of undergraduates transfer at least once between colleges. Lori Chajet is co-founder and co-director of CARA.

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