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A Poetic Path to Social Change - Thomas Kneeland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. Unfortunately, burnout is frequent in this work when confronted with faculty and learner pushback.

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A Poetic Path to Social Change - Thomas Kneeland

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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Standing Up to Attacks on Black History and DE&I

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Thomas Stewart is Executive Vice President for Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at National University

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Transforming our reality together: Moving from Equity & Assessment to Assessment for Justice and Liberation

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

The framework laid out equity arenas, equity actors, and equity actions which needed to be founded upon equity anchors—building community, imbuing social justice knowledge and values, rethinking time and prioritization, and restoring effective communication. Why is student affairs not leading faculty development work?

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

After finding this was happening, campus leaders had CCD more closely align the course objectives at the two other universities or had faculty identify all of the course learning objectives with an equivalency of transfer and credit. Marie DeSanctis 11:43 Mine as well. What does the faculty think? That’s really hard to do.