Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. How do academic libraries spend their budgets?

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A Comprehensive Guide to Library Management System Software. Managing a house of books is not a small deal. This tough task is now simplified, thanks to the library management system software. Let’s try to learn more about library management system software in this blog post. . How in general is a library managed?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Lewis said that too often, conversations about urban education fail to bring practitioners to the table with researchers and policymakers to brainstorm solutions. And to have such a solutions-oriented conference is refreshing. That local community outreach in the host country of the conference, Lewis added, is critically important. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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? Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JUNE 4, 2023

If you are an aspiring or even practicing experiential educator looking for more information about experiential learning or could use a boost of inspiration, I highly recommend that you start by reading some books about experiential education written by the experiential learning greats! I recommend reading all of the books if you can.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. million books protected by copyrights, including 33,000 of the publishers’ titles—was swift, landing days after the March 20 hearing. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mims says the work is particularly crucial for Black girls, who are at the heart of her research agenda. Much of the language that Mims uses in her research is about liberation for Black students. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 28, 2019

Photo credit: The University of Edinburgh In this extra post, Christine Love-Rodgers, College Lead for Library Academic Support (CAHSS), highlights the important role that the Library Academic Support team play in developing students’ information literacy….

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? I still vividly recall C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. Pipeline and diversity programs in the database are assessed through what Byrd and Mason call the THRIVE Index : Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice and Expectation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

What Chua had intended as a semi-comedic study of parenting at a cultural intersection quickly became a hotly contested book. “A If you actually read the book, you realize that it gets really complicated. If you want to write the book, write the book.’” A lot of people were talking about it without having read it.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

sports, the arts, research, internships, paid work, or volunteer work). To make the point, consider the young man who spends four hours every Saturday shelving books at the local library. This shows dedication and consistency, but it does not show increases in responsibility or increased impact for the library.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2023

Here’s what looks good on a college application It’s not what you do, but how well you do it Many folks think that there is some secret check list that one follows to get into selective colleges: community service, academic research, leadership, sports, the arts, an internship. It’s about the impact. It is not substantive work.

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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? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. Academic libraries are going to change and if you work in them, you will need to grow and change as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

In the prisons where I work, they’re limited to no more than 10 books total,” she said. They’re always having to make these heartbreaking choices about which books they’re going to get [and which] they’re going to give away.” It was hard for you to concentrate and dig deep in the research that you were most passionate about,” he said.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Most of the strategies were taken from the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Equitable-Focused Teaching website (n.d.), Content What and Why: The book used to guide our teaching and learning workshops was the evidence-based Engaged Teaching: A Handbook for College Faculty (Barkley & Major, 2022).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Two sessions continued on Thursday during the second and final day of the Black Men Research Institute’s (BMRI) Spring Symposium. The convening continued its conversation on the mental health of African American men at the Woodruff Library in the heart of the Atlanta University Center. Kimbrough, Interim Executive Director of BMRI.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In this post, Dr Francesca Baseby, Manager of the Centre for Research Collections, reveals the benefits of Object Based Learning, an experiential learning method available to students and staff at the university… The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) provides access to The University of Edinburgh’s unique cultural and heritage collections.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

While my colleagues and I have done hundreds of campus visits as a way to research colleges, our families are embarking on these adventures for the first time. Or academically non-selective schools that emphasize their academic research programs (“seriously, lots of kids participate in this program”). The gee-whiz videos.

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Experiential Learning Depot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Community Book Drive For this service-learning project example, students organize a book drive to collect winter reading materials for libraries, shelters, or literacy programs, helping promote learning and escape through books.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Photo credit: Resource Lists homepage: [link] The Library now provides Resource Lists for around 2500 taught courses. The Library has grown the service by showing how Resource Lists benefits students, and by making it easier for course organisers to request Library materials for teaching by using Resource Lists.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

They are places where the library occupies the central location on the campus. Perhaps you’ll attend labs and discuss important books and research. You may have researched different majors that may interest you, but with which you are still unfamiliar. Colleges are places where you will study.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Balancing the use of technology with human interactions is a concept known as High Tech, High Touch, and was first introduced in 1982 by futurist and author John Naisbitt in his book, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. Researcher and author Hana Ben-Shabat discusses this in her book, Gen Z 360.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 24, 2023

You can get access to my free resource library by opting in to receive text alerts! Age Group: 12th grade Community Expert: A book publisher Final Product(s): A professionally written memoir of her life Authentic Presentation: She published the book online and shared it with friends and family. The investigation was on!

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

All the required data for a student to study will be available within their palm with the power of the cloud - and no more carrying heavy books. Get access to an extensive range of digital books, periodicals, and research papers through digital libraries and repositories. When you study you need to evaluate yourself.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

I started to compile a list of electoral-adjacent books for this column, only to feel an urge to go outdoors and forget about what the next 20 months have in store. (At Here follows a digest of some books that seemed particularly interesting. At times there are definite therapeutic benefits to seeing squirrels.)

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 24, 2016

[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an instructor’s perspective.]. Where does the library portion come in? Reflecting.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The University has world-class collections of books, archives, art and museum objects, whose potential for learning and teaching can be unlocked through digitisation. Digitisation is the process of representing books, documents, recordings or objects as digital information.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

What the hub includes: Resources include training links, research articles, book lists, podcast suggestions and recommended websites. It is a place for everything related to neurodiversity, from instructor resources and research articles to neurodiversity events.” The Neurodiversity Hub was born.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 25, 2023

The rest involved rephrasing prototyped text, conducting additional research on top of pre-existing arguments, creating meticulous puns and punchlines, and organising the structure. Book reviews are typical types of assessment in Humanities courses. ChatGPT’s philosophy reminds us that appreciating hidden gems is not elitist.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

You hafta write like your professors talk—like, it’s gotta sound fancy and detached, like an academic book.” In the sociology of education, a well-researched form of dialect code-switching is when Black students must switch between African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and so-called mainstream American English.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

He talks about the increasing scope these technologies provide for diverse yet privileged researchers from across the world. Vasileios is also a book, vinyl, beer cap, and mouth harp collector – using the latter instrument to invite students back from class break. and gender, asking how all of these things come together and interplay.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

And what better place to do my homework than the library! So this week’s blog is all about the Van Wylen Library ! Similarly, the Research desk is in the lobby of the first floor to help students do research for papers and classes. Lots of homework, you know? We’ll go through the floors to start off.

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Academic Librarian

JANUARY 29, 2016

Yesterday, through force of circumstances, I had to use the new WorldCat interface to demonstrate research techniques, and the experience wounded me. Students working on research essays in the humanities should try to find, and ideally enter, scholarly conversations on the topics of their research. Find the subject heading(s).

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