Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. I was the only one who taught poli sci, but I also had to teach courses in history, law, speech, and English to hit a full-time load. (My Graduate school prepared me for a world that didn’t exist. I have never worked in that world, other than as a teaching assistant.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why. Someone who knows no American history might not catch the Stassen reference. is getting most of the attention.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean OK, so the title is a bit dry. In practice, most colleges tend to stick to a master’s degree requirement in fields in which they’re relatively plentiful and clearly relevant, like English, history or math. But the subject matters.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. ” That bit of history wasn’t helpful to newbies.) But failing to notice the history doesn’t make it, or its effects, go away. The focus that year was American history, and we were focusing on the Supreme Court and various civil rights cases.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. There’s shared history, but also a sense of having seen each other at our best and at our less-than-best. In the past week, without meaning to, I’ve met several former direct reports in different contexts. (In

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Economically speaking, is it better to be an engaged history major or a begrudging math major? A new study suggests that engagement is more important than content in most cases. That tracks with what I’ve seen. For better or worse, most people aren’t great actors.

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EAB

MAY 15, 2023

Blogs 5 top priorities for advancement leaders in 2023 In April 2023, EAB surveyed chief advancement officers across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom asking them to identify the most pressing issues for their advancement shops. Notably, 89% of partners outside of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I lost track of the number of times on Friday I heard someone use the word “refreshing.” It’s fair to say that many of the humanities faculty and deans at community colleges are feeling neglected at best, if not attacked. History: 3.6 It comes from all sides.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask any registrar: optimizing a departmental or course schedule is among the most thankless tasks there is. ” Imposing fixed time bands is ultimately a political decision that requires input from deans, department chairs and, in most cases, the faculty senate. There are two alternatives.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A few years ago, The Wife asked me what I would have done for a living if the whole academic thing didn’t work out. Go ahead and consign the quickly-written campaign autobiographies to the dustbin of history. Not skipping a beat, I said I would have loved to open a bookstore.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 6, 2023

The Importance of AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools editor Mon, 03/06/2023 - 06:52 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff Overview of AACSB Welcome to our blog on AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This turned into an ongoing debate. students as they did.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean It took me years to get past my first impression of academic advising. I’m thinking about poli sci, or maybe history. At Williams, students were assigned faculty advisors apparently without regard to what they wanted to study. I was entrusted to a physics professor.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Aaron Basko This is a guest blog from Aaron Basko , vice president for enrollment management at Lynchburg Universit y. Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. The news has not been good. percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

“It’s spring break,” Mity Myhr, professor of history and associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Harold Pardue, interim dean of the School of Computing at the University of South Alabama, was caught by surprise at a recent advisory board meeting his school hosts with industry leaders.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Reporting activity information up to deans and academic affairs offices is key to building faculty profiles, gathering accreditation data, handling performance evaluations, understanding faculty workload, and informing promotion and tenure review processes. Another area that imposes administrative burden is activity reporting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean At one point in the 90’s, I was visiting Mom’s house while my grandparents were there. Buckley’s famous portrayal of “standing athwart history, yelling Stop!” Everyone in the family was a reader, though not all of the same things.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Last week Matt Reed (“Confessions of a Community College Dean”) lamented unused funds given by donors in his post “ Dead Money.” Would Inside Higher Ed even allow the use of “f**k,” “f **s,” “fuckery” and “f **g” in a blog post?

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 24, 2022

Throughout our history, and today, the University of Washington has been home to a wealth of AA and NHPI pathbreakers and change-makers. AA and NHPI communities are also at the heart of our region’s history and heritage, with roots that extend back to the 1860s.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Boy and The Girl have returned to their respective campuses for the spring. TB is in his last semester of college, which happened inexplicably fast; TG is in her first year. She’s right. The “aha!”

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

David Bowersox, Vice Dean of Finance & Administration at the Duke University School of Nursing, spoke about the “marathon course assignment meetings” his team used to attend before TAMS. History matters. Faculty involvement makes all the difference.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the recent federal omnibus bill and heard from several readers—thank you! history, the younger generation has fewer years of education than the generation before them.” I also qualified for a full Michigan Competitive Scholarship. Tuition was $41 a credit.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Failed searches for college presidents are now commonplace. Most of the college presidents who rose through the ranks made their reputation not as scholars but as administrators, typically as provosts or deans. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After earning an undergraduate degree here in accounting, he returned as a faculty member in 1998, serving 11 years as a professor and 12 years as business school dean. President Randall said, "I find history to be the most instructive leadership manual I've ever seen." You might say we're irrationally passionate about this place.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean In what seems like another lifetime, I took a graduate course in literary theory. A third reader developed an interest in the history of sportswriting, particularly about baseball. The beauty of it is that baseball has nothing to do with her day job.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2023

Starting in 2010, Dr. Willis served as an Assistant Professor of History, department chair, faculty senate president, and Executive Dean of Centers at Lone Star College (Houston, Texas). in history from Florida State University, and bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Florida A&M University. She earned a Ph.D.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Admission is based on performance in three preliminary courses, not academic history. The post Announcing 8 degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content to help learners build skills of the future appeared first on Coursera Blog. The first cohort is expected to begin in August 2023. “We

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

We will be doing so here on the Frontiers Blog and episodes on the Frontiers Podcast! While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

ACAD - American Conference of Academic Deans – This group, supporting academic leaders “above department chairs and below presidents” provides professional developments and the exchange of best practices for academic leadership at the dean and provost level. including college and university counselors.

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Mistaken Goal

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. ” It comes from remarks given in 1929 by Dean Emeritus Stanley Coulter of Purdue University as recorded in the Secretarial Notes of the Tenth Annual Conferences of Deans and Advisers of Men.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Hollywood has largely abandoned one of its late 20 th , early 21 st century staples: The laugh-until-you-cry college comedy. But I’m not surprised that most undergraduates enter my classroom convinced that my history courses are a box-checking exercise, irrelevant to their professional ambitions. Old School.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit. In this one I’ll outline a dilemma I’ve seen, and hope that some wise and worldly readers have found elegant ways around it. Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through January! I’m also digging into a fantastic stack of books on higher ed and I’ll be writing about these books in the coming weeks: Unwelcome Guests: A History of Access to American Higher Education (2022)—Harold S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. It might actually accomplish what Georgetown’s Dean of the School of Continuing Education says the online liberal arts degree completion program promises: “to empower more students to finish their bachelor’s degree, but also transform their lives. It would certainly not be a money-maker.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Look at a list of student success strategies, and almost certainly one word will be missing: The F word. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Take, for example, EAB’s 2021 Student Success Playbook. Support students with technology-enabled advising.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I was glad to see the accreditor ACICS has announced that it’s folding. That’s largely a function of history. It offered cover, and access to federal financial aid, to a host of bad actors in for-profit higher education.

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