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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. For the next three months, our group reviewed each section of the course master syllabus, based on our lived experiences as students and faculty and informed by the initial readings.

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Partnership Seeks Revival of Black, Jewish Alliance in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Each institution will provide seminars to educate faculty and students about the shared history of Black-Jewish solidarity, provide a deeper understanding of Jewish identity and Israel, and prepare participants to confront antisemitism in the world.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. Sponsored research awards tripled and more than 325 tenure-track faculty members were hired.

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‘It’s different when they’re in their office’: the disconnect in student perceptions of academic meetings

SRHE

To explore this further, we conducted a small mixed-methods study with students from Leeds University Business School to consider their preferences for online or in-person meetings, utilising a faculty-wide survey for breadth and short semi-structured interviews for depth. Final thoughts A limitation of this study was the low response rate.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. “The culture industry is alive and well.

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Ten campus living-learning communities to model

Confessions of a Community College Dean

While there’s no major requirement for FETCH LLC, one aim is to help students learn more about the service animal industry. Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead. DS LLC members complete a first-year seminar with their floor mates.

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[PODCAST] Campus 2.0: The Next Generation of Campus and Student Living Access

University Business

Register Now Date & Time: Thursday, August 1 at 12 pm ET A transformation is happening on campuses across the nation, as students, faculty and staff are interacting with their institutions in very different ways than in the past. Speaker: Ron Shaffer, Industry Solutions Leader – Education, SALTO The post [PODCAST] Campus 2.0: