Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. But the general public doesn’t know.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead. Cabin Bob also boasts a Homestead library, with books related to Homesteaders’ lives and interests as well as a study space, adding another academic dimension to the living-learning community.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Faculty across disciplines, from the sciences to the humanities, can—and should—more directly debunk this false ideology in their courses. A required freshman seminar course could be one place to focus on this work. Today they can help repair that legacy of harm by exposing this growing racist myth for what it is.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

“We wanted to give faculty around the university the chance to identify students who were struggling in the beginning of the semester and then recommend that they enroll in the second section in the second half, so that we didn’t have to capture students in that first week,” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

As for the rest of the time, he said, “There are so many obligations for a professor, including attending student committees, attending seminars, preparing and delivering lectures, writing and submitting grants, writing progress reports, traveling to present the work, reviewing manuscripts, reviewing grants, answering emails.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

Somewhat similarly, it seems self-evident that campuses, too, are better served by allowing faculty to set their own teaching and research priorities than to have a board of trustees or a frequently shifting senior administration set the institution’s direction.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Should research and scholarship by English faculty conform to the same model as that in the biological, brain, physical and social sciences—evaluated first and foremost by quantity and citations—or might it take different forms? Shouldn’t professional associations do more to integrate these Ph.D.s into their operations?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

” When reached for comment by Inside Higher Ed , Bolger forwarded the request to Carolyn Steigleman, DeSales’s associate vice president for marketing and communications, who wrote, “At this time faculty are not available for interviews about this matter.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Faculty were also eager to demonstrate their interdisciplinary work, which made it natural to launch the courses. What it is: The 360 seminar is an interdisciplinary course focused on a single theme, featuring guest lectures and atypical assessments. The program launched in fall 2019, and the initial course focused on food.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: Sacred Heart University administrators have long encouraged students to understand the institution’s mission and values by attending seminars and events designed to reflect and promote the “Pioneer Journey,” the academic, spiritual and social-emotional learning path that encompasses the student experience at the university.

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Parchment

MARCH 26, 2024

At Higher Ed alone, we’re reaching 10 million students, staff, and faculty every year with evidence -based digital trainings on topics like sexual assault, alcohol and substance misuse, harassment, discrimination, career readiness, mental wellbeing, belonging, hazing. Like all of that is great.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We use a model where faculty actually advise students their third and their fourth year. And going back and we have ambassadors that, you know, now they go into those first year seminar classes and they showcase their, you know, co -curricular experiential transcript. Global education has that discussion. So they have that discussion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” Professor Lloyd asked the non-profit Telluride Association if he could lead one of its free summer seminars for highly motivated diverse high school students. ” What Professor Lloyd discovered was that his seminar and the anti-racism workshops were very different beasts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner. “It spans disciplines.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

There are probably few faculty lounges around the world that haven’t witnessed exasperated discussions about what the availability of generative AI to the wider public entails. Historically, we’ve tried to achieve this through the essay form. ChatGPT makes clear the pedagogical limits of that goal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 2, 2023

That institution’s first- and second-year seminars ensure that all the campus’s undergraduates acquire fluency in masterworks of art, literature, music, political and moral philosophy, and theology and the frontiers of the biological, brain and natural sciences. Neither faculty nor students show any interest in such an approach.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. The class meets that need.

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