Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

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Faculty 87

Faculty Higher Education Humanities Policy 87

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 13, 2017. When teachers change lives, it’s the human element that inspires, connects, and motivates in transformative ways. More mundane goals drive our efforts. When we later hear about it (and sometimes we don’t), we’re surprised. © Magna Publications.

Faculty 109

Faculty Students Humanities College 109

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

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.” As disciplinary experts, we sometimes rush into the first solution that our expertise suggests to us. It’s time to get in the water.

Professional Development 98

Professional Development Faculty Administration Policy 98

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. times the current pace if they want the professoriate to reflect the U.S.

Faculty 127

Faculty Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Achievement 127

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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.” As disciplinary experts, we sometimes rush into the first solution that our expertise suggests to us. It’s time to get in the water.

Professional Development 93

Professional Development Faculty Administration Policy 93

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. The instructor can then adjust the course as needed.

Inclusivity 84

Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Scholarship 84

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? Discovery : What are your strengths? Why did you select the particular research area?

Humanities 100

Humanities Faculty Department Scholarship 100

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.

Higher Education 81

Higher Education Inclusivity Public Affairs Degree 81

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. The instructor can then adjust the course as needed.

Inclusivity 79

Inclusivity Faculty Development Retention Scholarship 79

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).

Organization 98

Organization Higher Education Technology Policy 98

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

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on December 13, 2017. When teachers change lives, it’s the human element that inspires, connects, and motivates in transformative ways. More mundane goals drive our efforts. When we later hear about it (and sometimes we don’t), we’re surprised. © Magna Publications.

Faculty 78

Faculty Students Humanities College 78

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). Faculty find value in the use of powerful statistics; however, make sure to highlight both successful benchmark data in concert with student data in need of improvement.

Professional Development 102

Professional Development Faculty Arts And Sciences Policy 102

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.

Medical School 125

Medical School Higher Education Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts 125

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.”

Policy 90

Policy Administration Law School Dean Of Students 90

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Gavin recently addressed in his Inside Higher Ed op-ed “ Presidents Must Speak Out Against White Nationalism ,” we should also focus on what colleges can do to help our students navigate this rising threat. White nationalism is no longer a fringe movement, and higher education, as well as our students, are targets.

College 107

College Higher Education History Humanities 107

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). Faculty find value in the use of powerful statistics; however, make sure to highlight both successful benchmark data in concert with student data in need of improvement.

Professional Development 65

Professional Development Faculty Arts And Sciences Policy 65

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Five strategic priorities for admissions teams in a time of exceptional change The remarkable convergence of crises our nation has faced since the start of the pandemic has amounted to a stress test for higher education, revealing strengths and vulnerabilities that previously went unnoticed, were underestimated or were perhaps misunderstood.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Recruitment Degree Schooling 52

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 are then able to discuss how this applies to race relations today and our discussion is often reinvigorated. Include personal narratives.

Inclusivity 76

Inclusivity Environment Faculty Technology 76

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Strategy 1: Learn more about Disability Studies in Education (DSE). When DSE is positioned in classrooms, autistic traits are centered as strengths rather than deficits, e.g., instead of framing an autistic student as having “a love of repetition or ‘need for sameness’” (Baron-Cohen, 2017, para. About Autism. Autistica (2015).

Advocate 125

Advocate Deans Education Environment 125

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.

College 73

College Community College University Scholarship 73

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 are then able to discuss how this applies to race relations today and our discussion is often reinvigorated. Include personal narratives.

Inclusivity 62

Inclusivity Environment Faculty Technology 62

Echo Delta

JANUARY 11, 2024

Questions about the value of higher ed are at an all-time high. And, to paraphrase my favorite business professor crush, Scott Galloway, (sorry Mark Ritson), when a product’s cost outpaces inflation without also growing value, disruption isn’t far behind. Is it aligned with our objectives? What is the cost?

University 40

University Higher Education Schooling Academia 40

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.

Arts And Sciences 83

Arts And Sciences Schooling History Humanities 83

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.

Students 52

Students Humanities Higher Education Leadership 52

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 26, 2023

We shared this conversation on the UIA's own Innovating Together Podcast as an extra opportunity to clearly articulate our mission and methods. Redesign Higher Ed for Student Success Dr. Burns explained how college was never designed around student success: "One of the many ways is that our data systems are not connected. Run the data.

Advise 52

Advise Higher Education Policy University Services 52

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Strategy 1: Learn more about Disability Studies in Education (DSE). When DSE is positioned in classrooms, autistic traits are centered as strengths rather than deficits, e.g., instead of framing an autistic student as having “a love of repetition or ‘need for sameness’” (Baron-Cohen, 2017, para. About Autism. Autistica (2015).

Advocate 85

Advocate Deans Education Environment 85

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We found that bias widened after receiving grades, making this the first study to our knowledge that confirms that gender bias is fueled by feedback. Our evidence seems to indicate that women receive more backlash for grades than male professors.” ” It makes sense, then, to think about interventions, Bandy said.

Liberal Arts 122

Liberal Arts Faculty Deans Institution 122

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” The IPCC states unequivocally in its April 2022 report that human behaviors have warmed the globe, and that—to limit warming to 1.5 Divestment is a defensive tool employed to protect investors from the loss of value—losses as certain as climate change’s global reach.”

Institution 93

Institution Achievement Organization Facilities 93

GlobalHigherEd

APRIL 5, 2017

The 4 April 2017 legislative move by the government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was widely condemned by CEU , as well as by numerous parties across Europe and North America. As the European University Association, with 850 members across 47 countries (serving 17 million students), put it in a press release : 04 April 2017.

Higher Education 100

Higher Education Organization Provost Public Affairs 100

The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

…you get to choose which of these pathways are more important to you and you spend less time worried about, the politics, the meetings before the meetings, and the meetings after the meetings, because there is role, there is scope, and there is authority, and you know what yours is.

Model 52

Model Academia Faculty Deans 52

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. So many terms. But there is good news, too.

College 105

College Degree Technology Policy 105

The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

The first is that it’s human nature to want to advance and meet new challenges. Our guest today is Dr. William Brit Kirwan, chancellor emeritus at the University System of Maryland, a nationally recognized authority figure on the critical issues facing higher education. As a result, many people are still compelled to rise to the top.

Leadership 52

Leadership Higher Education University President Arts And Sciences 52

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

I also thought briefly about just moving on, but quitting is just not in my DNA. Worst of all, they are sneaky about it.” Our next generation of senior faculty and tenured professors should not have to go through what I went through. “Most academic professors can’t afford to launch lawsuits.

Arts And Sciences 97

Arts And Sciences Deans Faculty Department 97

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 can walls be used to share stories about the educators they will meet within the classroom?

Arts And Sciences 52

Arts And Sciences Technology Engineering Liberal Arts 52

SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

Our text is from Boris and Horace. In the past there has been some dispute about whether he really was ‘the’ campaign manager, but no doubt there are now fewer claimants to that ‘honour’.) There is no reference in the UUK announcement to the value of academic autonomy, or the need to be mindful of that autonomy.

University 40

University Disadvantaged Higher Education Arts And Sciences 40