Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2023

The following is an article from The Teaching Professor. For more articles like this, consider purchasing a yearly Teaching Professor subscription and use coupon code TEACHING50 for $50 off your total ! My moment of awakening occurred in a conversation with one of the best students in that year’s graduating class.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2023

The following is an article from The Teaching Professor. For more articles like this, consider purchasing a yearly Teaching Professor subscription and use coupon code TEACHING50 for $50 off your total ! My moment of awakening occurred in a conversation with one of the best students in that year’s graduating class.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: Supporting student success is complex goal. The course, launched in 2021, aims to help faculty, staff and administrators reach their students and provide supports in new ways. “Student success ultimately equals a sturdier workforce,” she says. They also need coping skills.” on quality and 4.2

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. “Our core foundational information literacy programs that we teach don’t reach those students anymore.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

She is a professor and associate dean for research at Michigan State University, researching mathematics education for students with disabilities and those at-risk. Bouck is published in over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored six books and over 30 book chapters.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Many even have dedicated student success librarians, solely focused on collaborative, resource-focused programming.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the past year, 41% of over 75,000 surveyed college students reported having major or minor depression, 36% reported having an anxiety disorder, and 14% experienced suicidal ideation. I think the meeting actually elevated the need for us as administrators, and particularly college presidents, to focus on the mental health of students.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” The second point said that “Dean positions are created and filled before dean positions are defined[;] input is requested only after key decisions are made.” ” But the letter does discuss the dean situation. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image: The University of Wyoming is launching a new program focused on boosting enrollment and graduation rates among rural students in the state. The initiative will provide college-prep training to up to 2,000 high school students selected from 10 rural public schools, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But now, with decades of experience in teaching and higher education under his belt, he’s looking at new ways to shape the student academic experience, leading with equity and access in mind. Q: What led you to a career in higher education and, specifically, focused on student success?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Image: A new report finds that the closure of a college or university has a devastating effect on the educational attainment of the students enrolled at the time. Those that closed generally enrolled larger populations of students of color than institutions that remained open—55 percent versus 46.4 percent dropped out, and 10.4

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As institutions attempt to implement a variety of priorities, they understandably focus on the end result: improved student outcomes and equity. For improved student success and equity outcomes to be realized, there needs to be changes in college educator attitudes and behaviors.[1] In other words, no implementation.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. And the list goes on.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well. But we agree that we don’t have to resolve the dispute over diversity statements in order to help our students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. “I ended up picking Temple University, but JEVS will continue on after a disabled student graduates from Temple” and help them find housing and employment, she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: Boise State University opened its Micron Student Success Center earlier this year and will formally induct the space in April, offering a consolidation of resources for its engineering students to promote a sense of belonging and create a resource center. Facundo’s goal is for the center to be student informed.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While building a 15-year foundation in admissions and enrollment management, Williams found herself engaging with students long after they had enrolled, which naturally expanded to helping them successfully navigate campus. Her main responsibility is broad: to serve undergraduate student scholars and their unique academic goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: When New York University announced last month that it would suspend admissions to its undergraduate music education program, students were shocked. Nonken's note said the pause would allow the department to rework the undergraduate curriculum, but students already found the curriculum challenging and rewarding.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

That was one of the new guidelines university officials outlined in a Sunday press briefing at which they also stood by the resumption of classes after a gunman killed three students and injured five others on campus last week. One of those students is John Hao, who is 20 and from China, The Detroit News reported.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Image: The recent Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse Student Voice survey of two- and four-year college students about academic life revealed gaps in core advising functions. This doesn’t mean students don’t benefit from advising, however. That said, many institutions don’t mandate meetings with advisers.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That is, colleges have been slow to recognize that students may need AI literacy training that helps them navigate emotional responses to eerily human-sounding bots’ sometimes-disturbing replies. Donahoe opted to co-create a course policy on generative AI writing tools with her students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. Around this time, Stern’s new dean allegedly opposed his tenure bid, as did the provost, contradicting the positive recommendation of his department.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. He said that the concern was that I was ‘indoctrinating students.’

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

All of the projects will touch on one or more of the research areas, and four will also focus on promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and career opportunities to underrepresented students. This article was published in our September 2023 issue. This article was published in our September 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Image: While individual campuses and situations play a role in intensity of the problem, parking issues are a nearly universal frustration for students and others on campus. And it certainly doesn’t help that a popular best practice in creating walkable corridors involves placing parking at the edges of campus. block:block=176].

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Even though we’re a smaller university that doesn’t have a lot of resources, we try to focus the resources we do have on helping diverse minority students,” he says. In past years, the four-year program saw two or three men in a cohort, Mott says, but about 10 to 15 male students have enrolled in recent cohorts.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

Peter Blitstein , associate dean of faculty at Lawrence University, in Wisconsin, has been selected as provost and dean of faculty there. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. Bergeron made the announcement Friday morning, writing in a statement that she would formally step down “at the end of the current semester.”

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The first — McKesson Leading Excellence, Advancing Diversity (LEAD) — will recruit students from diverse communities by establishing pathway and mentorship programs with historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina. “[The This article was published in our January/February 2023 issue. million to fund two new programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Roach Dean of the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, has been chosen as president there. Vischer , interim president and former dean of the law school at the University of St. Daniel Pullin , John V. Thomas, in Minnesota, has been named to the job on a permanent basis. Patrick Wolfe , Frederick L.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 24, 2023

Yale University recently announced changes to its mental health policies in an effort to better support students in crisis. The Ivy-League institution will now allow students struggling with mental health problems to take a leave of absence and return to the university when they are ready, The Washington Post reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down in the wake of student protests and widespread calls for her resignation over missteps on diversity, equity and inclusion. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 My decision to leave at this moment is for the good of all these things.” Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

Doyle III , dean of the John A. Claudine Gay , Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, in Massachusetts, has been chosen as president there. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, in Massachusetts, has been appointed provost at Brown University, in Rhode Island.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

“Enrollments in English Language Institute programs have declined over the last several years as part of a larger trend of declining enrollments in intensive English programs nationally,” wrote Kathleen Blee, the dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

David Doré , president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College, in Arizona, has been appointed chancellor of the Virginia Community College System. McFadden Sr. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Presidents Is this diversity newsletter?

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Today's Learner

AUGUST 2, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Dr. Jacque Taylor is an Assistant Dean at Greenville Technical College Educators have the daunting task of predicting how to prepare students for a workforce that will look much different than ours. Basically, we are preparing students for the unknown. Teach students how to speak clearly and with poise.

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