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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A lot of OER initiatives reside within library systems, whereas you might have a vice president for DEI out of the provost’s office or president’s office.” We can’t have the library doing all this OER work when those in DEI don’t know about these initiatives,” she said.

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. An FRN membership lets financially pressed universities like mine leverage NYU’s resources to offer great opportunities for professional development and scholarly production.

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Two Scholars are Building Diversity Initiative Database for All

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being able to see something for Black students that was being sponsored in housing and sponsored with the library, as an example, I think was very eye opening,” said Mason.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Community outreach with MPH and honors students in October 2019 at the Southside library, Chattanooga, TN. The impact of science field courses in The Bahamas on the personal and professional development of U.S. Eshbaugh, W. & Branson, R. college students, 1977–2014. & O'Donnell, K.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Alex Hadba, CC0 In this post, Lauren Smith, Digital Support Librarian, outlines why open access resources are important in teaching, how lecturers can incorporate open access resources into their teaching materials, and how Library and University Collections can support them… What is open access?

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Career Ceilings

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For colleges that only have one library, the next step up for the head of the library is likely a very different job. Professional development can help, but it’s often so general or abstract as to be oversold. A terrific librarian may suddenly have to become an expert on tutoring.

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Major update coming to CU’s Skillsoft training platform

CU Work-Life Balance

The platform allows users to access a library of standardized courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and professional certification courses. It will still host CU’s custom-built courses, but it will include a greatly expanded, updated library of standardized courses. CU uses Skillsoft to manage its mandatory and custom training courses.