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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

An experience that, when combined with teaching composition and serving as an academic senator, has informed my fathoming of the AI tides approaching higher education’s shores. Design Thinking (DT) reminds us instead to begin with audience analysis: the first step in DT is to consider your “users’” needs (Raz 2018). Raz, Ariel.

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Learning to Surf:  Supporting a Campus’s AI Needs 

Faculty Focus

An experience that, when combined with teaching composition and serving as an academic senator, has informed my fathoming of the AI tides approaching higher education’s shores. Design Thinking (DT) reminds us instead to begin with audience analysis: the first step in DT is to consider your “users’” needs (Raz 2018). Raz, Ariel.

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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Denise Bartell For institutions to truly transform students’ experiences in the classroom, they must support the faculty experience as well. Recognizing the key role of faculty in this work, we established the Equity Champions (EC) , a faculty community of practice intentionally designed to build relationships.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Fostering Inclusivity Through True Support for Female Faculty

WCET Frontiers

Lessons Learned and Key Takeaways Five years ago, I moved from teaching into administration, specifically in faculty development. In supporting women faculty with disabilities during this time (including during a pandemic), their unique needs became clear to me in ways I had not considered before. Skyhorse, 2018.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

candidate in educational psychology at the University of Kansas and a lead researcher at Multistudio, a Kansas City, Mo.–based Redesigning learning spaces has been part of the AAU’s Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, which launched in 2011, and active learning classrooms on some campuses predate that effort.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Distance learning is viewed today as a parallel learning modality, and is both valued and entrenched in higher education (Marcus. The preparation of faculty in online pedagogy and the appropriate use of tools for asynchronous learning to quickly build capacity was a start (Tucker & Quintero-Ares, 2021). 2022; Nworie,2021).