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Report: California Community College Leadership Growing More Diverse But CEOs Face Shorter Tenures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, the report also documents significant progress in diversifying leadership: Black/African American CEOs now make up 17.3% The report recommends increased professional development and board support for CEOs to help extend their tenures and effectiveness. of leaders, more than 2.5 of CEOs, though still below their 40.4%

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Report Examines Fragmented Reentry Services for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Attending College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Then, the same small group of us were invited by our dean’s office to put together a professional development event, which was on Zoom, which we called Faculty Sharing Circles, where we invited faculty to come and we put them into Zoom breakout rooms,” she continues. We’ve continued to offer professional development,” she said. “We

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Write Your Teaching Philosophy Statement

The Scholarly Teacher

Those are the ones to focus on here in this short document. Using a teaching philosophy statement as a professional development tool for teacher candidates. Ask yourself, what do you expect students to take away from the courses you typically teach? Which of those outcomes are common to every course? Caukin, N.

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The Documents You Need to Support Assessment Continuity and Vision

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

In a previous blog post , I recommended assessment professionals develop four documents that can help to guide their work. More to the point, these documents also offer a consistent source of reflection for professionals at the end of the year and a springboard for using data in practice.

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Create a Trauma-Sensitive Learning Environment Using Container-Setting

The Scholarly Teacher

We can offer sensory accommodations to all students, or at minimum, to those who have documented sensory needs. We have also used container-setting in nontraditional learning settings, such as professional development, clinical preceptorship, workplace mentorship, and client coaching.

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Uncover Success: Top 5 Cities for Historical/Archival Research Internships

AIFS Abroad

Developing a well-rounded perspective allows researchers to interpret documents, artifacts, and records with greater depth and accuracy, and effectively communicate with colleagues from different backgrounds. One of the best ways to cultivate these skills is through an international historical/archival research internship.