Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. Its master’s degree program in Diné Culture, Language, and Leadership required the institution to hire new faculty members and save money for a research library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit. A new analysis from HCM Strategists refutes these explanations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2023

Mine turned out to be an improbable success story, one in which my past did not determine my future. When our students, faculty, and staff are under attack, higher education must stand up—and stand strong. However, understanding the past was critical to pursuing a future that could be different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Karen Colbert, general education faculty chair and lead math and STEM faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (KBOCC) in L’Anse, MI, teaches her math students the skills they need to pick up data-mining jobs in their local, rural area. What sets this program apart is the focus on and investment in faculty.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It’s not lost on me that mine is an incredibly rare experience, which I think is really unfortunate.” Whitaker), shares his experiences of dealing with dishonor and racism, within his professional settings, when he writes: “In my own experience within the academy, I have also experienced The Look from faculty and staff colleagues.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 18, 2022

But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students. I want to unpack these from three different perspectives, the individual student, faculty, and institutions. Like any technology, AI also has its disadvantages and limitations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But I figure the faculty of color were only relatively more comfortable than the undergraduates. A former classmate of mine who never left and stayed to become a distinguished tenured professor, and endowed chair, once told me that Harvard was like an elephant that moves very slowly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class. When I first joined the [Yale Law] faculty, I would go to a faculty meeting that would be 90% white males.

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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

Student to Faculty Ratios and Educational Quality When a client asked me the other day about the importance of student to faculty ratios, I got to thinking about other supposed indicators of educational quality. Student to Faculty Ratios Can Mislead But the statistics, beautiful though they are, do not tell you the whole story.

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The Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. This is not a student-centered approach, or a faculty-centered approach; it is a learning-centered approach. It is mine. Image courtesy of , Unsplash. If Not a Syllabuster, Then What?

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

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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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

Enlisting key members of my data science team as practitioner mentors, we met and worked with more than 100 students, faculty and staff at HBCUs. At each school, scores of aspiring data scientists sought to effect positive change in their communities, supported enthusiastically by faculty and staff.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

Enlisting key members of my data science team as practitioner mentors, we met and worked with more than 100 students, faculty and staff at HBCUs. At each school, we found scores of aspiring data scientists wanting to effect positive change in their communities, supported enthusiastically by faculty and staff.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Toxic incentive structures surrounding publishing scholarly work may be eroding faculty and research integrity at large. ” And leaders must remain particularly stringent with holding faculty accountable when they’ve been found to deliberately cheat, Magness says. ” More from UB: Will add later.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

What’s the need: The idea to cancel classes came from faculty in October, says Tomomoi “T” Horning, the executive director of the center. Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. Share here.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

ChatGPT is a tool; not a tell-all Some faculty don’t think it takes a complex software to detect ChatGPT’s output if you take a second to read the work. “It’s Ryan Baker, an educational data mining and learning analytics professor at UPenn, believes we should leverage it as a tool as we would any other.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.” ” “The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided.” So what does this mean for colleges and universities? It’s necessary.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

Instead of even thinking about it as cheating, we should encourage students to use these tools heavily, be open about how they’re doing it, and design assignments that leverage that rather than trying to ‘catch’ it,” said Ryan Baker , an educational data mining and learning analytics professor at UPenn.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

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. HyFlex may be useful in some limited circumstances. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

A: I was a first-generation college student from a small coal-mining community in east Kentucky. These are social workers in our school of social work who are part of the individual college’s leadership team, who serve as a subclinical counseling coach resource to both students and faculty. We’ve got a lot of work to do.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Great College Advice

JULY 25, 2023

To give a concrete example of this, a student of mine was trying to decide whether she was more suited for a business and marketing degree, or whether she was more interested in psychology. If you are hoping to talk to a specific person (because you share their academic interests), then go right to that faculty member.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Regardless of how administration and faculty may feel about the landscape of college rankings and how it may err a student’s perception of an institution, the sheer number of institutions to choose from will always motivate them to utilize a ranking. . ” Will college rankings ever go away? That is something we can work on.”

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PUC

JULY 24, 2024

A recent conversation with a mission pilot friend of mine alerted me to the desperate need for Christ-centered pilots in the field. I also had the chance to work as a youth pastor and spent two years working toward my PhD in Philosophy (but I haven’t had a chance to finish just yet). What made you decide to accept this position?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

With The Bot, you can effortlessly and almost instantly produce essays that one faculty colleague of mine described as surface level and formulaic but solidly in the B range. How wonderful would it be if faculties’ implicit (or explicit) biases about these groups could be squashed by uniformly well-structured essays?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

I recently attended a collegewide discussion of ChatGPT’s teaching implications, and I was struck by the exasperated faculty participants’ intense and insistent negativism. Yet to my mind, the platform, even in its current form, is an asset that faculty would be remiss not to leverage.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Too often, faculty develop curriculum in silos, disconnected from the realities of the job market. She is a close friend of mine to this day. A good friend of mine , Russell Lowery-Hart, was the president at Amarillo College. Or what the faculty just want to teach. Alana Rose: That’s right. Alana Rose: Yeah.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2025

The colleges top-down, bottom-up approach integrates faculty, staff, and community input and revisits key priorities each year. More than 70 faculty members recently co-designed new academic models, contributing to a culture where ideas move from concept to execution quickly. It was a classmate of mine. And maybe you got lucky.

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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. I think the answer is “yes.” ” Here’s how: 1.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here was the response: One thing that someone has done for me that has made me happy and thankful in a surprising way was when a friend of mine offered to drive me to the airport for an early morning flight. ” the progressive writing faculty among us might be thinking. Who knows what else it’s capable of?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What resources are our faculty going to need? Professional development for faculty. Additional instructional design staff to support faculty teaching in that format. There needs to be an understanding of what are the needs of the students, and what is the support that the institution needs to provide to their faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Too many equate active learning with discussion and debate as opposed to inquiry or problem solving or activities involving annotation, concept or geo-mapping, role playing, text mining, visualization, and presentation. The problem is straightforward: There are no incentives for faculty to introduce these techniques. Solution 1.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Key Statement: Faculty can provide encouragement and tools so students have the opportunity to strengthen their resilience and find success in challenging situations. Here, I did not get the impression that this challenge (pregnancy) was mine alone to bear, but something I could share with her and get a little relief.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The merit of secret shoppers is that they provide the view from what a professor of mine called “the other side of the desk.” A few years ago, a faculty colleague wrote about the differences in student perceptions when she started calling office hours “student hours.”

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Study and Go Abroad

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Studying abroad has always been a dream of mine and, this past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in York University’s GLBL 3581 study abroad course in South Korea. The following article was written by Noor Ayn, a York University student pursuing Human Resources Management.

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