Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

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Faculty Higher Education Humanities Policy 87

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Since the pandemic, our student audiences are distant, both literally and figuratively. Initially, we want to establish tone in our digital communications much like we do in an in-person classroom at the beginning of the semester. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever.

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Humanities Model Professional Development Guidance 107

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” What can be done?

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Professional Development Faculty Administration Policy 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. To tame their anxieties about AI, faculty and administrators might embrace Howard Kabat-Zinn’s maxim, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” What can be done?

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Professional Development Faculty Administration Policy 93

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). Brookfield (Brookfield, 1998) identifies four lenses through which to examine our teaching (figure 1 in Appendix). professional development).

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Professional Development Guidance Engineering Scholarship 102

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). Brookfield (Brookfield, 1998) identifies four lenses through which to examine our teaching (figure 1 in Appendix). professional development).

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Professional Development Guidance Engineering Scholarship 97

The PIE News

MARCH 2, 2023

Having sold my Fintech business in 2017, I made a personal investment of £5 million to better understand the problem. I’ve been inspired by their dedication to supporting students – this is truly a remarkable industry of people supporting the global mobility of over six million students.

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Recruitment Students University Technology 52

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: A Harvard University dean says he’s reversing course and offering a fellowship to Kenneth Roth, the former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director who said he was initially rejected over his criticism of Israel. “This is about much more than just my fellowship,” Roth said.

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Humanities Deans Faculty Schooling 86

HEPI

APRIL 20, 2024

This chapter was authored by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and author of A University Education (2017). Our universities face a funding crisis. So, the first thing universities need to do is to be as transparent as possible about the costs they face.

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University Model Facilities Higher Education 123

The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At a time when the world’s challenges and opportunities are increasingly global and the resources supporting study abroad have never been greater, why are so few American students pursuing international education? And we must do a better job of communicating with members of students’ support system — educators, advisors, parents, and mentors.

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College Students Department Scholarship 119

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Since the pandemic, our student audiences are distant, both literally and figuratively. Initially, we want to establish tone in our digital communications much like we do in an in-person classroom at the beginning of the semester. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever.

Humanities 74

Humanities Model Professional Development Guidance 74

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Now, Black teachers comprise about 7% of U.S. Now, Black teachers comprise about 7% of U.S. Ford, a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. “We During the 2017-18 school year, white students made up 58.4% Meanwhile, Black students made up about 8.2%

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Education Facilities Schooling Postsecondary Education 130

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Together, we decided to experiment with ways that mind maps could support our endeavors.

Inclusivity 84

Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Scholarship 84

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students. Watford says.

Engineering 115

Engineering Organization Advise Technology 115

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Together, we decided to experiment with ways that mind maps could support our endeavors.

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Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Scholarship 79

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

We are two Black women higher education scholars, who love women's basketball and love Black women and care deeply about their well-being. In talking with LaWanda about her love for basketball, Chayla recalled, “I had to have the No. And watching them is like seeing ourselves, our Black womanhood, on screen. We got you.

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Higher Education Humanities Leadership Schooling 115

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. The common theme is you have to be intentional about both and determine the desired outcomes for the intended audiences.

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Higher Education Inclusivity Public Affairs Degree 81

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. Why is this divide important for SRHE?

Professional Development 98

Professional Development Schooling Empower Humanities 98

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.

Leadership 52

Leadership Higher Education Equity Inclusivity 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

It all came to a head on April 23, 2017, the night of Howard’s Student Choice Awards, where Ross won Activist of the Year. His friends grew increasingly concerned about Ross and decided to call campus police to get help. A condition of his release was that Ross would return home to Texas to receive psychiatric support.

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Students University Advocate Policy 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal.

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Professional Development Faculty Arts And Sciences Policy 102

EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In this third and final post, I turn our discussion to the utility of the analytics function and how it can achieve real institutional impact. educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3).

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Organization Higher Education Technology Policy 98

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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Technology Engineering Learning Experience Faculty 90

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“It is unacceptable that anyone would intentionally cause pain in our community through this kind of hateful act,” Fanta Aw, the university’s vice president for undergraduate enrollment, campus life and inclusive excellence, wrote in the email sent out campuswide on Feb. We have a comprehensive approach.”

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Policy Administration Law School Dean Of Students 90

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. But plans were scuttled in 2017 due to state politics and resistance from UH , prompting this reaction from the UH System’s Board Chairman: “The University of Houston is pleased that UT is not expanding in Houston.

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Medical School Higher Education Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts 125

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. “Eighteen- to 22-year-olds are actually our single largest, fastest-growing group.”

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University Students Degree Liberal Arts 123

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. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution.

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College Community College University Scholarship 73

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There is a growing amount of evidence that the disabling impairments of autism are due to the need of support in one’s environment, and not because of one’s inability to function (Lai, et al., There are ways to purposefully integrate environmental supports into educational spaces. About Autism. American Psychiatric Association.

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Advocate Deans Education Environment 125

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.,

Technology 77

Technology Engineering Learning Experience Faculty 77

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Those students who do complete the bachelor’s degree typically do so with about 30 excess credits. And improvement is needed.

Liberal Arts 68

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Community College Humanities 68

Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal.

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Professional Development Faculty Arts And Sciences Policy 65

Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Asking probing questions as well supports further interaction and critical thinking. 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. affect our values, worldviews, and behavior.

Inclusivity 76

Inclusivity Environment Faculty Technology 76

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” “Our minor had 12 students, more than 21 other minors on campus, including five ethnic studies minors,” Shi said this week. The numbers don’t support the decision.” Both AAUP bodies have expressed concerns about Allegheny’s process. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Faculty Department 110

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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Institution Department Of Education Department History 87

HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It was a time before the Teaching Excellence Framework, the Higher Education & Research Act (2017) and the unwanted attentions of a market-regulator, the Office for Students, were imaginable. So attention naturally turns to what the higher education sector and its attendant policy community can expect from a future Labour government.

Higher Education 61

Higher Education Administration Education Policy 61

Faculty Focus

JULY 25, 2023

Asking probing questions as well supports further interaction and critical thinking. 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. affect our values, worldviews, and behavior.

Inclusivity 62

Inclusivity Environment Faculty Technology 62

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

There is a growing amount of evidence that the disabling impairments of autism are due to the need of support in one’s environment, and not because of one’s inability to function (Lai, et al., There are ways to purposefully integrate environmental supports into educational spaces. About Autism. American Psychiatric Association.

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Advocate Deans Education Environment 85