Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

The incentive to review book manuscripts is near nonexistent, and not just because the payment university presses are able to provide for this service, in the form of cash or books, is inevitably quite small compared to the time and thought required to give detailed, in-depth feedback. We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

The Results With ongoing support from EAB’s professional services team, they saved hundreds of hours and expect to save even more in future cycles. It took weeks to complete each reporting cycle, and they often missed deadlines and requirements. It’s a whole team.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Although we have some academics serving as coaches, most are professional services staff, covering a wide range of roles and seniorities. The professional services emphasis helps: the coaching relationship is not an academic one. Photo credit: Muturi Njeri. Scholar students with the Principal, Peter Mathieson.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Similarly, we would like to thank all staff involved (academic, professional services, sessional), the residential site and staff, George Gaff, who similarly ensured a COVID safe space. Students informally arranged personal tutor/tutee meetings with their personal tutor and the programme director throughout the residential block.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Collaborative Living Lab projects can provide answers and guidance for operations and professional services staff, experiential learning opportunities for students, and gateways for research impact for academics. What makes a Living Lab project? A Living Lab project should aim to: Solve a real life problem.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 7, 2019

This months’ Widening Participation strategy-themed Teaching Matters’ posts will showcase the already rich variety of outreach and support strategies that academic and professional services staff in the University are undertaking. This situation is exacerbated by a lack of geographic mobility for disadvantaged groups of students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here are my takeaways: Faculty diversity matters, not simply as a matter of justice or equity but as a way to enhance the three responsibilities universities value most: teaching, research, and community and professional service. writ large. Professor al-Gharbi’s papers explains why that is a problem.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Each year, we have several categories celebrating these staff – from supervisors and cohort leads to the many professional services staff who keep things ticking along smoothly. Support Staff of the year: Aletta Ritchie, Disability and Learning Support Service (Photo credit: EUSA) Our Support Staff of this year is Aletta Ritchie.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developing such guidance and training has been a chief focus of the Digital Safety and Citizenship initiative in the Digital Skills team over the past two years, but it is clear that we need the help of both our academic and professional services colleagues to spread the word.

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Professional Services Professional Development Student Conduct Education 52

Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 3, 2023

People are more likely to buy when they can see the effort put in or the service provided is student-led. Try graduation merch or party planning services! There are also many benefits to the students that organize and host the fundraiser projects. Kids love fundraising! Now for the fundraiser project ideas. Is it almost graduation day?

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Next, Northampton’s IR and IE staff partnered with Edify’s professional services team to build exports in Edify that matched every form field and reporting requirement for both IPEDS and the Pennsylvania state reporting agency, PIMS. The ability to look at your data historically.

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Community College Government Professional Services Management 52

Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 27, 2020

The contributors were a mixed bag of clinicians, academics and professional services staff but all were starting to find their feet with teaching online. When I first joined the clinical education team I had very little experience teaching online and I was very nervous about it. Of course, context is important and must be considered.

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Medical Staff Development Healthcare Professional Services 52

SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

by Roz Collings It was University Mental Health day on Thursday 14 th March 2024. This is a national UK project organised by Student Minds and University Mental Health Advisory Network, aiming to start a conversation to ensure university wide mental health is a priority. It is time for some significant changes to happen in our profession.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2023

This triple whammy of innovation has placed considerable demands on academic staff, students, and professional service colleagues as we try to bridge gaps and make connections between various fields of study in a complex web of university structures and processes.

Social Justice 52

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 6, 2023

The Panel was asked to feed into the development of a Digital Strategy together with members from administrative teams and professional services across the University.

Food 52

Food Professional Services Consulting Student Life 52

Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 14, 2019

The way students are signed up to courses in EUCLID impacts feelings of agency, worth, and value for students, professional service staff, and academics alike. For instance, they have shown how something as simple as the structure of a request form can impact financial institutions in huge and unanticipated ways.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

With Spotlight on Joint Degrees , a monthly blog post will bring you notes from the field, which we hope will encourage discussion across the university about what joint degrees should look like, and facilitate productive dialogue between students, professional services staff and academics.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before Colm offers a concluding statement. Helen Stringer Helen Stringer is Assistant Director of the Careers Service, with a remit for developing and strengthening academic partnerships.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Peer-focussed activities are a key concern of the well-defined Citizen Scholar: they allow students an opportunity to take responsibility over their own learning outcomes, but also to demonstrate the kind of services and support mechanisms they want to see within the institution.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 27, 2023

They have also interviewed staff members – both academic and professional services – who are actively engaged in innovating student feedback mechanisms. The Student Feedback Network Project (SFNP), funded by the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) , aims to address the above-mentioned challenges faced by students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 4, 2020

They had specifically organised a session for all new staff, professional services staff and academics together. I think back to my first day as a ‘Waitress’ in a large sporting pub in Dublin. It was a Saturday, the 6 Nations final was playing and it was also St. Patrick’s Day!

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2022 report by the Mental Health Foundation found that nearly three quarters of students in Scotland reported low well-being, and 45% said they had suffered from a serious psychological issue that they felt required professional help, so this is not an isolated issue.

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Higher Education Health Services Professional Services Medical 59

Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 31, 2020

This duty involves both legal and moral obligations to internal (students, academic and professional services staff) and external (the general public) audiences through a variety of published material, including but not limited to physical and digital documents. This goes beyond an adage that we have merely “moved it all online”.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur. In 2018, the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee task group, “ Promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum ”, was created to address these concerns.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 27, 2023

For students, they have personal and professional development opportunities to enhance their CVs, beyond the society involvement alone. For example, they can evidence working closely alongside academic and professional services staff. The partnership fostered a sense of community between the School and the Society.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 10, 2020

Key staff, both Professional Services and academic, also attend, including the Head of School and Heads of Subject Area, the Senior Tutor, the QA Director and the (Deputy) Undergraduate Directors, the Teaching Directors for each Subject Area, plus the Student Support Manager and the Careers Consultant.

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Hanover Research

MARCH 31, 2023

When this happens, everyone — most of all, students — reap considerable benefits. —Marriam Ewaida , PhD, Managing Director, K–12 Professional Services , Hanover Research Build your district and school employees’ data literacy skills with our Data Literacy Checklist.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I talked to 13 staff participants across different schools and roles, including professional services and guest lecturers, to find out what value they saw in lecture recording. Unstructured interviews are essentially conversations with a purpose. I don’t think either staff or students have quite got it completely right.

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Research Banking Professional Services Food 52

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 4, 2020

The ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ (PWS) forum in the Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) aims to promote discussion and to share information about practice that has worked well for academic/professional services staff, as well as providing opportunities to take a ‘tricky issue’ for discussion.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

There are many different projects with students and staff co-creating the curriculum at universities around the world, although these initiatives are still relatively rare. Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Matt:   Being a Challenge Host, alongside Dr Jeni Harden, was an incredibly valuable experience and helped to generate momentum behind efforts to meaningfully embed climate and sustainability into the curriculum. I These recommendations were drawn directly from their own student experience. Students have some great ideas.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 22, 2021

Professional Services staff reported challenges around providing training in how to use central technologies, and in procurement. We were struck by the candour of staff in sharing their experiences. Here is what they want you to know. “It It was building a plane as we were flying it.” So what now? “It

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Research Banking Professional Services Education 52

Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 19, 2021

The partnership between these organisations represents blurring boundaries between HE, private capital, and technology services, and assumes digital technology will be a driving force of post-pandemic HE recovery. Salesforce has the technological capacity to make these visions materialise.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

In our role as teachers or professional service staff, how can we support students to reconcile such tensions and meaningfully contribute to sustainable development in their future workplaces and careers? Were you excited to prepare for a career in which you could positively contribute to the world?

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Career Services Industry Media Professional Services 52

Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2022 report by the Mental Health Foundation found that nearly three quarters of students in Scotland reported low well-being, and 45% said they had suffered from a serious psychological issue that they felt required professional help, so this is not an isolated issue.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Health Services Professional Services Medical 52

Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 15, 2023

Support Staff of the Year This category recognises staff working in professional services who provided support to students, helped things run smoothly and efficiently (often behind the scenes) and signposted students to services and resources, so they could get the support they needed. This is my final year as a Ph.D.

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