Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment. PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. Students are always on their phones.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Participants don’t have to use their vacation days anymore.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. “ There’s two of us are going this route” “ There’s two of us are going this route. I don’t see the value. Who would pay the running costs?”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I worked hard to transform the organization because it was pretty lily white,” he says. At the time, Tate was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Linda Darling-Hammond, to the post in 1995-1996. Dr. Carol D.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Diana was previously Policy Advisor to three Ministers the last time Universities, Science, Research and Innovation were in the same portfolio. Of course, there is no easy way to make sense of the complexity of the world around us, which also makes governing a challenge.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future. The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. She earned her Ph.D.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Citizen Leadership o Over the past three elections, we have dramatically increased voter participation among our students earning us the most improved campus in Pennsylvania award from the All In Democracy Challenge. o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. That’s what the terminated professor, Xiaoling Shi, and some of her colleagues and students want to know.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

How do we encourage academic staff to think more intentionally about how they use different spaces in and through their practice? How do we effectively build in ideas of working with spatiality into our learning and teaching strategies? How are others using those spaces?

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Employment at a decent working wage did exist for those who did not have a degree however that world is quickly changing. Upon graduation, I started immediately after commencement at a small university in Kentucky as an admissions officer and completed my master’s in a relativity short amount of time while working.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

5 December · Episode 184 Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan 30 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Perspectives of a long-time R1 / AAU president that current presidents can put into use to overcome current challenges in higher education. Embracing adaptive leadership styles to address evolving challenges.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

22 August · Episode 169 Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges 25 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Discover the impact of president turnover on higher ed leadership. Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions. Brit” Kirwan of the University System of Maryland.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

18 July · Episode 164 The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions 35 Min · By Drumm McNaughton In this eye opening discussion with the author of "Crushed" learn about the impact of student debt on American society and how to approach solutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

29 August · Episode 170 Improving Presidential Tenure and Effectiveness in Higher Education 30 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Insights for universities to cultivate longer and more impactful presidential tenures, resulting in greater stability, improved institutional performance, and strengthened relationships. This process is flawed.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 28, 2022

In this episode, we look at the University of Texas at San Antonio and how operational changes they made during COVID permanently transformed the way their marketing team works. Joining us in the conversation is Anne Peters, AVP for Marketing and Special Projects and Brett Calvert, Senior Executive Director Of Marketing at UT San Antonio.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

And it was Horace much longer ago who urged us to seize the day, and put little faith in the future. C arpe diem, quam minimum credula postero [1]. Our text is from Boris and Horace. As we survey the present carnage [2] in government, what are vice-chancellors to do?

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