Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Do we need to think differently about how we do, communicate, and incentivise research? Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs? There are many global challenges that we face.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A video highlight for an event presents information about an event in a short overview that makes it easy for audiences to glean critical takeaways. Continuing our tradition, we’re expanding on last year’s compilation of holiday videos and have curated a fresh list that will put you in the holiday mood.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Retractions.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. As we have become more diverse and reflective of our state, we have also become better as an institution.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Our students need to understand fully the historical underpinnings and current ideologies that continue to sustain this imbalance. We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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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. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I was in total shock when I first learned about it,” said Dr. Linsey C. Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. Such were the emotions of many of the MacArthur Fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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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.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Arts or Science? How about both!

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

What’s the sitch: Georgia Tech established its learning outcomes in 2011: communication; quantitative; computing; humanities, fine arts and ethics; natural sciences, math and technology; and social sciences. The first was an online forum discussion about gen ed outcomes created on Microsoft Teams.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

The UK’s economic growth and its global position as a leader of science and innovation cannot be secured without skills. There are significant gaps in higher skills areas, particularly in higher productivity sectors such as Life Sciences, Digital and Clean Energy. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here.

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HEPI

APRIL 29, 2024

Here we share a frame and some insights based on our experience. We hope this will be helpful to others in these roles facing decisions about priorities for leadership attention. HEPI is hosting a webinar on student maintenance support next Thursday 9th May to mark the launch of a major new report. You can sign up here.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. Sheares Ashby: Everything you need to know about me, you can find out from the two people who raised me. My dad was a minister and a math and science teacher.

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

In current discussions of the value of humanities research, two concerns come across most strongly: the extent to which humanities research creates skills, and the extent to which humanities research is financially lucrative for individuals, the government and the economy. The second is rediscovery.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since then, he’s taught thousands of learners on the platform with the University of North Texas (UNT) in both the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences and the Bachelor of Science in General Business. I started teaching professional courses, career courses, human resources and organizational behavior courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Considering that enrollment in college is dropping—with higher education losing one million students in the last two years alone and steady year-over-year losses for more than a decade—we must have a frank exploration of how students perceive the value of a degree. Employers are desperate for prepared, career-ready talent.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

” Even Google seems concerned about sharing its turf. It was a small gesture, but it made a big impact on me and showed me how much they cared about me and my well-being. My many years of English courses have taught me to be skeptical of such hyperbole, so I decided to test it out myself.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

But in our age of disinformation; photo, video and audio manipulation; doxxing; and big lies, how can we possibly be sure that anything is unambiguously true? On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth. Much of what people claim to know rests on trust and deference. Less than a year ago, former U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For example, she favors teaching students the value of empathy not through the standard techniques of social-emotional learning, like “ anti-bullying workshops, classroom rules stressing compassion and wall charts of ‘feeling words’ and ‘emoji meters,’ ” but the intensive study of works of literature.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I was passionate about technology," he recalled, "so I was able to persuade the board and the faculty and my colleagues to open up a new graduate center. "I I was passionate about technology," he recalled, "so I was able to persuade the board and the faculty and my colleagues to open up a new graduate center. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Implementing Innovative Structures Innovation in higher education is not just about generating ideas; it’s about putting those ideas into action and breaking down structural barriers that no longer serve today’s diverse demographic. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Twenty-two percent of adult learners we surveyed said internships, co-ops, and other active-learning experiences help convey the value of education when they are selecting a graduate or adult-serving programs. Read on for ways to support your adult learners through career services. Adult learner recruitment 2.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

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. Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

6 February · Episode 193 SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships 35 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton President Teniente-Matson shares insights on utilizing public-private partnerships to develop meaningful student, community, and brand experiences. Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There’s a pressing need to reassess underutilized assets and repurpose them in innovative ways that add value to the student experience and open up new revenue streams. Crafting a New Business Model for Financial Stability Understanding and serving the needs of students is paramount in redefining the value proposition of a university.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Agency can also entail adopting an alternate value system, sensibilities and way of life.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. 60,000 a year programs for seniors that will let you call yourself a Harvard or Notre Dame fellow and help older workers plot encore careers and reflect on their work lives and find a sense of purpose.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

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. Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal.

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