Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons. Dr. Donna Y. Dr. Donna Y.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” For instance, in 2019, 6.2% of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4%

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” For instance, in 2019, 6.2% of Canadian undergraduate students and 2.4%

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

by Roz Collings It was University Mental Health day on Thursday 14 th March 2024. This is a national UK project organised by Student Minds and University Mental Health Advisory Network, aiming to start a conversation to ensure university wide mental health is a priority. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. Serena Chen. “It People are busy, and we don’t want to overdo it.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Across the higher education landscape, the challenge of attracting adult learners to higher education has become universal. In the 2019-20 academic year, adult learners made up 37% of all undergraduates. The post Why we must improve opportunity and accessibility for adult learners appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Depending on whom you ask, you will get wildly different views on the state of the American university. My career path has been anything but typical of a university chancellor, but I believe that my unique experiences have given me a different perspective on higher education.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. 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.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. 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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities. Historically, universities have focused on teaching students to think with printed texts. Vladimir Bratic, PhD, is an associate professor of communication studies at Hollins University.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Combining insights from her own investigations of posthuman materialities with critical contributions by Braidotti (2019), Barad (2007), Delanda (2006) and Bennett (2010), Carol moved to trouble normalised and common sense ideas about knowledge-making and space. 2007) Meeting the Universe Half-way. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Part of our role as universities is to produce (and facilitate the production of) knowledge. As the REF puts it we should be “illustrating the benefits research delivers beyond academia, including how it brings tangible changes to aspects of society and life, and the public value it delivers”. by Finley Lawson.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

My background is in Educational Neuroscience, applying how the human brain learns to improve teaching environments. Q2: You just got your Doctor of Education from Johns Hopkins University. See Coursera's Drivers of Quality report for more details. My dissertation consisted of two primary research studies.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities. Historically, universities have focused on teaching students to think with printed texts. Vladimir Bratic, PhD, is an associate professor of communication studies at Hollins University.

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SRHE

JANUARY 20, 2023

She debated how discursive constructions of mobility may influence who can access academia/higher education, who can gain recognition, and who can establish a feeling of belonging. Particularly for universities outside Anglo-America, international scholars constitute an important element in creating a so-called ‘international university’.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Image: In May, Stanford University announced it would open a new school funded by a gift of $1.1 Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. billion from private equity billionaire John Doerr, the second-largest donation ever made to an institution of higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

And while efforts have taken many forms, none have become more visible and have built more momentum than the increasing efforts in business, government, and academia to address the issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). . The University of New Hampshire has taken a somewhat different approach.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

.” If you’re teaching students how to program in python, you need a python programming environment simulator. There simply isn’t a single generic learning environment that will work well for teaching all subjects. And none of these tools are helpful for somebody teaching English composition. LTI changed all that.

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