Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2023

How did you use your strengths to critically think about the research topic? What did you like best about your experience? How do you think it aligned with your strengths, values, and/or career aspirations? What motivates you in your chosen career and program of study? Discovery : What are your strengths?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

More recently, design thinking has been introduced as a way for students to explore career interests, career planning, career change, and find fulfillment in their careers and lives (Evans & Burnett, 2016). The challenge of designing a career is viewed as a “wicked problem.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest. Tell us about it.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

” Why, you might ask, was I thinking about Fitzgerald instead of U.S. In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. It’s why I was thinking about F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

She sat down with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about what has shaped her as a leader, reversing higher ed’s tendency toward elitism, how leaders and institutions can grow through traumatic events, and the value of being present and making the best possible impact. And this puts a lot of pressure on us to up our game.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Is a degree or a professional credential the right path for a student’s desired career? We have to think differently about the future of higher education. The common theme is you have to be intentional about both and determine the desired outcomes for the intended audiences. Is a postsecondary degree affordable?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. For example, some systems have no field in which to enter information about certificates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I’m interested in a number of recent histories that can give us a clearer idea about the problems that face contemporary society and also about the kinds of solutions that we might not otherwise encounter without the benefit of that historical perspective,” says Belew. The subject matter is again growing in relevance.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Image: In 2017, the U.S. The regulation is intended to prevent bad actors from gaining access to federal financial aid funds for courses that are devoid of human interaction. In the 2017 case against Western Governors, the government cited concerns about inadequate faculty roles in the institution’s distance education courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors. Those students who do complete the bachelor’s degree typically do so with about 30 excess credits. And improvement is needed.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2016), education (Calvert & Abadia, 2020; Frank & Kapila, 2017), and crisis management (Kwok et al.,

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Friedman, J. Turner, N., & & Yagan, D.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 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. Lewis said he was hesitant about “speeding up the process too much.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dr. Bevlee Watford Taylor Cupp Established in 1992 by Dr. Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. Honestly, I’m still amazed every single day about what we have now,” Watford says. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation. Rogers, a journalism major, sees this as university leaders being more concerned about protecting the institution’s image than addressing racial incidents head-on. We have a comprehensive approach.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions. There’s near-infinite possibilities of studies that can be done about ways we close different kinds of equity gaps now that we have a more precise data set.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. Between 2013 and 2017, the percentage of Houstonians agreeing with the phrase “education beyond high school is necessary for success” fell from 73 percent to 54 percent. ” And especially in Houston.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2016), education (Calvert & Abadia, 2020; Frank & Kapila, 2017), and crisis management (Kwok et al.,

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Personal narratives allow us, as instructors, to guide students in sharing their own experiences, while identifying with both the subject matter and the students in the human experience. We can examine the dynamic forces of gender norms through accounts of my career as a female academic and educator during the pandemic. & Kim, D.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. With transfers representing a small segment of the student body, selective schools must be thoughtful about how they foster a sense of inclusion and belonging.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Then, for “edgy transgression,” the report uses an example of a student repeating a joke about the Holocaust for shock value, without having any connection to a white nationalist group or cause. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Colleges have an opportunity to intervene in these early stages of indoctrination.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Three studies on alternative credentials were published recently, and all point to employers’, colleges’ and students’ confusion about microcredentials. Respondents reported job titles including senior manager, senior director, CEO, executive vice president and human resources manager or director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Don’t let your hands fly the way so many Puerto Ricans like you do when they’re excited about something. It's going to recognize aspects of your upbringing, maybe aspects of your family life that not everybody in STEM training programs or STEM careers have to deal with. from Duke University in 2017. “I It backfired.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The “servile” arts were about performing employment. ” (Elizabeth Anderson’s 2017 book Private Government is good on this.). Classical literature slowly gave way to English literature, then to American, then to world, then to films, then to graphic novels and now to digital humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“I walked away spending only about $7,000. ” At Western Governors, traditional-aged student enrollments have more than doubled—from approximately 6,000 students in 2017 to 15,000 students in 2022. They know what they’re about, or that’s just not the question that drives them right now.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Government Accountability Office found in a 2017 report. Only about half of colleges and universities nationwide have automated articulation rules governing which course credits count and are automatically applied. Parchment is a juggernaut in its niche of the ed-tech world, serving about 2,800 colleges and universities in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Superhuman willpower, seething rage and unbridled determination ultimately thwart the other’s beliefs, power and authority to repress human rights and dignity. If someone makes a claim against the university to human resources, is it human resources’ job to protect the individual employee or the institution?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Personal narratives allow us, as instructors, to guide students in sharing their own experiences, while identifying with both the subject matter and the students in the human experience. We can examine the dynamic forces of gender norms through accounts of my career as a female academic and educator during the pandemic. & Kim, D.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

His former department—which Meixner headed—was provided Dervish’s photo, information about the expulsion and steps to take if anyone saw him on campus. It’s unclear how much, if anything, the University of Arizona knew about Dervish prior to his enrollment there.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

One reason is that the recent rebound comes in the context of a longer-term decline; from 2017 to 2022, four-year public institutions saw a 2.9% Also troubling is the much larger shortfall seen at two-year institutions, whose freshman enrollment dropped 22% between 2017 and 2022. That said, few admissions teams are resting easy.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 26, 2023

What happens is that we lose students by the thousands, we find out much later, and there's nothing we can do about it. I think there is something really powerful about a group of presidents communicating that this is a priority. Chatbots won't replace the human connection. In many institutions, it's a low-income student.

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

The grants from these bodies are relatively large (for the arts, humanities and social sciences), and are typically expected to make a theoretical, not only empirical, contribution. Vibrancy within the field of educational studies is also evidenced in data from the most recent national research assessment exercise in the UK (REF2021).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In the past 12 years when I was overseeing the Chinese program, I never had the opportunity to talk to the chief academic officer about Chinese.” ” Concerned that racial animus motivated Allegheny to act as it did, Shi—who has been outspoken on campus about anti-Asian hate—filed a complaint with the U.S.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It is widely known that skills required by employers today are focused less on discipline specific skills and more on personal skills (also referred to as soft skills or human skills). This is because the skills required to address such issues are often human-centred. by Lucy Gill-Simmen and Laura Chamberlain.

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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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