Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

During the 2020 global pandemic, Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) were challenged with maintaining access to learning and student attendance. 2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility. Representation.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. In 2019, Dominican redesigned our alert system to help new students stay on track academically. Around 20 percent enter graduate school. Share here.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Chase has more than 40 years of experience in academia, including more than 20 years in leadership positions, most recently as vice president for academic innovation, student success and strategic initiatives at Claremont Graduate University in California. First-year programs are not as common for graduate institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

While during the day, I work with universities to build high-quality online degrees, I’ve also recently completed a fully online degree as a student, where I conducted research to understand and better support female learners in online STEM courses. Q2: You just got your Doctor of Education from Johns Hopkins University.

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: When Julianna Barnes set her sights on a career in academia, she envisioned eventually becoming a vice president of an institution and assumed it would be her pinnacle role in the profession. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard. percent were Black.

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