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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s not lost on me that mine is an incredibly rare experience, which I think is really unfortunate.” This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting.

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No More Syllabusters

The Scholarly Teacher

First Day Mindset On the first day of class, many faculty read a syllabus and issue dire warnings about not following the course dictates within. That discussion is a reference for many aspects of how the course will operate and provides students with a document to help foster mutual understanding and their success. It is mine.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Unfortunately, burnout is frequent in this work when confronted with faculty and learner pushback. To support faculty in any discipline to survive this inevitable pushback and avoid burning out, they recommend developing a long-term, transformational relationship with a peer (a Table of Fellowship).

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Six reasons why HyFlex shouldn't become the norm (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

video camera, microphone, document camera). A friend of mine at a different university had to teach a HyFlex course with no classroom microphone or speaker, making it impossible for the remote students to hear their peers or for the instructor to hear remote students’ questions. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That the document’s authors were biased toward data science while downplaying other areas of math. Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.” So what does this mean for colleges and universities?

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Journalism schools could help save local papers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When I moved here a dozen years ago to join the faculty at the University of Oregon, the Register-Guard was a crucial member of the community. The paper could draw on the resources of the UO student body and faculty. Gannett is in the extraction business, mining as much local wealth as it can with minimal investment.

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

My university provided a good microphone, a good speaker, a document camera. What resources are our faculty going to need? Professional development for faculty. Additional instructional design staff to support faculty teaching in that format. At first I was thinking through this problem in terms of technology.