December, 2020

article thumbnail

Kudos to YOU!

Grant McMillan

Well, it has been quite a year! COVID-19 has pushed us hard. And in my last blog post of the year, I am not going to dwell on it or look back on it because nobody needs that. What I am going to say is you make me proud. I was speaking with someone who… Read More Kudos to YOU!

IT 130
article thumbnail

2020: A Year of Crises and Opportunities in Higher Education

The Change Leader, Inc.

The year 2020 has been a year of crises and opportunities in higher education. The year’s challenges have given higher ed institutions a chance to practice change management, as well as necessitated a sustained focus to build leadership capacity for higher ed and more targeted higher ed branding.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Podcast: Place Based Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image Credit: Design by Joe Arton This podcast series focuses on creative approaches to practicals and field work in online and hybrid spaces. Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss the critical role of place based education in hybrid teaching and learning and it’s capacity to support health and wellbeing.

article thumbnail

NCICU & Credo Form Partnership for Student Success

Credo Higher Ed

Photo Credit: NCICU.org. North Carolina Independent College and Universities (NCICU) and Credo are pleased to announce a partnership to improve student outcomes across the North Carolina independent college and university sector. The first cohort will launch in August 2021.

52
article thumbnail

‘Perhaps they’d never spoken to an educated young Latina before’

Regna Consulting

Boston Globe, Updated September 9, 2020 As told to Katie Johnston. Photo by SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF. Aixa Beauchamp is a Newton philanthropy consultant, cofounder of the Latino Legacy Fund at the Boston Foundation, and a philanthropist. Here, she talks about challenging the racially coded language people use and trying to understand what’s behind it.

article thumbnail

Re-setting site-work in Architecture and Landscape Architecture Design courses in 2020: Part 2

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Haoran Wei- garden, Qingdou, China In this second part to the post from December 1st, 2020 , the authors illustrate how the shift to hybrid learning has enabled them to rethink and revalue the pedagogical approach to “reading” sites from a distance in their Architecture course design… “Reading” sites from a distance The increasingly globalised condition of twenty-first century landscape/ architectural design practice has been argued to intensify spatial and ecological design d

article thumbnail

Bridging Divides

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

by Terri E. Givens. As a political scientist I am acutely aware that the November election was an indicator of the ongoing divides in our country. I wrote my book, Radical Empathy , in part to address those divides, but there are many divides that are impacting our country, leading to divisions within families and across communities. Institutions of higher education often find themselves in the middle of these divides as they work to address longstanding practices that hurt women and minorities,

DEI 52

More Trending

article thumbnail

From wounds to wisdom and the power of reframing

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: Glen Cousquer This month’s short issue will focus on things not going as expected in our learning and teaching environments and how we might turn these experiences into opportunities. There is a lot of pressure in academia to get things right first time, to excel, to demonstrate how much we know, to communicate to others what we can do, and to maintain the sense of the University as a site of higher learning.

article thumbnail

Dr. Mary Dana Hinton Honored as Winner of 8th Annual Courageous Leadership Award

Credo Higher Ed

Credo is thrilled to announce Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, President of Hollins University, as the recipient of our eighth annual Courageous Leadership Award.

52
article thumbnail

6 ways to motivate and support your student social media ambassadors

Terminalfour

At a time when new and prospective students are navigating unprecedented change, the role of the student ambassador has never been more important.

Media 52
article thumbnail

Sick leave will expand to all CU employees starting Jan. 1

CU Work-Life Balance

During the 2020 Regular Session, the Colorado legislature passed the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act , requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees at a rate of 1 hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. This policy will have no effect on employees already covered by the University of Colorado’s sick leave policy. Instead, this expanded sick leave coverage will largely affect part-time employees who average fewer than 20 hours per week.

Banking 40
article thumbnail

What we learned from the 2020 Heist Awards

Terminalfour

The Heist Awards, is a staple in the education marketing calendar, celebrating brilliance and innovation across the sector.

article thumbnail

Save the date: our survey results coming soon

Terminalfour

We are very excited to announce our 2020 survey results will be published on January 12th, 2021.

52