Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

The demand for online higher education is strong, with nearly 61% of all undergraduate and 56% of postbaccalaureate students taking at least one course online (NCES, 2022). What counts as hybrid education? Hybrid—or blended—modality education includes both in-person and online learning, which can be synchronous or asynchronous.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (DOE) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. ACPA/NASPA Professional Competencies: Leadership, Organization and Human Resources The post To Comply or Not to Comply? Brown University, 991 F.2d Presenter: Shanita L. Pettaway, J.D.,

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

A Brief History of American Higher Education Part Three — The Democratization of Institutions and Ideas AAUP At the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th century, there were numerous threats to academic freedom including a handful of celebrated cases. · The faculty initially rejected it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

Communication, teamwork, and problem-solving are key “success skills” employers seek in potential employees, according to a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). The report summarizes a decade of studies, between 2013 and 2023, and analyzes job postings in 16 SREB states.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the researchers found that the racial diversity of U.S. percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Allen spent about a year in corporate law before returning to higher education because, in her “heart and soul,” she was an academic. And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. Allen was vice provost for faculty at Penn from 2013 to 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Tenured: No Age: 33 Education: B.A., For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A., Congressman from Maryland.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

College presidents can come in all shapes and sizes, but these last two weeks illustrate institutional boards’ confidence in hiring academics with battle-tested experience in higher education. Those retiring are also stepping away from an illustrious career in higher education that’s lasted decades.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

by Jess Pilgrim-Brown University discourse, policy, and practice has focused increasingly on access, widening participation and inclusion over the course of the last thirty years ( Heath et al , 2013 ). Dr Jess Pilgrim-Brown is a sociologist and researcher in education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

While shootings on campus are extremely rare, said Williamson, the mental health and wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff can be deeply impacted by these events, which is why it is crucial that institutions of higher education respond to these incidents. Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

As the demand for online education surges, especially in the healthcare field, maintaining high standards and competencies should not falter because the delivery of education is on a different platform. After all, we are real people—and the human connection will lead all to positive outcomes. References Authement, R.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) stand out for recognizing that every student deserves access to quality education and are also centers for research and innovation (TEConomy, 2022). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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SRHE

JUNE 29, 2023

by Marguerite Koole As I write this response to the first symposium on “ Prospects for Space in Higher Education ”, I am aware of my asynchronicity. One of the characteristics that defines us as human is our use of technology. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue: “human thought processes are largely metaphorical” (p6).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Middleton Social media is neither honest about nor friendly toward Black males in P-12 and higher education. Moreover, Hines, Fletcher, and Moore (in press) have noted, “Since the early 2000s, Black men and boys have garnered increasing attention in the education theoretical and scientific literature” (p. Hines, Donna Y.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Perhaps it is not surprising that the educational sector is not best prepared for such an innovation.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These are challenges all of us in higher education face today. We have to think differently about the future of higher education. And rather than limit our work to what one type of institution or program can achieve, we should look across the entire higher education sector. Affordability. Social mobility.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

As the demand for online education surges, especially in the healthcare field, maintaining high standards and competencies should not falter because the delivery of education is on a different platform. After all, we are real people—and the human connection will lead all to positive outcomes. References Authement, R.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) stand out for recognizing that every student deserves access to quality education and are also centers for research and innovation (TEConomy, 2022). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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HEPI

MARCH 22, 2023

In his recently published specification for education and wellbeing analytics, Professor Edward Peck, the UK Government’s higher education student support champion and Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), highlighted the opportunity provided to universities by the increasingly sophisticated use of student analytics.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. In the second post, the work group discussed ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. A few years later, the student profile shifted in my online courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses. While CMU’s is the only U.S.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There are good reasons why institutional human research ethics committees (RECs) or research ethics boards (REBs) are needed in higher education institutions – namely, to ensure research participants are treated in accordance with a set of agreed standards and principles. by Jacqueline Stevenson, Tom Power and Alison Fox.

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The PIE News

MARCH 7, 2023

Academics analysed 400 reflection essays written by international students between 2013 and 2020, and found six key themes emerged. However, scholars, practitioners, and fellow students in higher education can learn much from these reflections.”

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Learning and Neuroplasticity Educators are brain changers. With approximately 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion synaptic connections, “there are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the milky way!” ( Colón-Ramos Lab, 2023 ). 2013 ; Mataka et al., 2022 ; Lee et al.,

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PeopleAdmin

JUNE 16, 2023

Centralized Hiring with Messiah University Don Lerew, Assistant Director of Human Resources at Messiah University , has been working with PeopleAdmin for almost 10 years and has seen his team through several implementations of different PeopleAdmin solutions. There was a lot more human time required to complete those tasks.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Previous research by the Centre discovered that pressures within schools dampen students’ expressed curiosity in questions about the nature of reality and human personhood and limit the development of their epistemic insight into how science, religion and the wider humanities relate. by Finley Lawson. My answer is impact.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

And what does it tell us about leadership today, both for these prominent cultural institutions and for higher education? Particularly so when—for the first time in modern memory—the role and value of higher education today are not only disputed but often discredited in public discourse. Why is that?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, the ‘dog-eat-dog’ culture of Higher Education (HE), austerity measures and more are leading to harmful consequences, and stakeholders with protected characteristics are worst affected ( Berg, Huijbens, and Larsen 2016 ; UKRI 2021 ; Bhopal 2020 ; Blell, Liu and Verma 2022 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their Passions Donors continue to prioritize Education in the top three giving categories (Religion, Human Services and Education). He is also a Professor of Education and Special Assistant to the President at VUU. billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively. Smothers Sr.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Houston has fewer educational institutions per capita than the state or national average. Why hasn’t higher education kept up? ” It’s hard to imagine a sadder example of parochial interest outweighing public interest or a better example of why higher ed revolution is nigh. That’s also very Houston.

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