Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

This is the question that faculty ask themselves silently, or among their colleagues. I find the question to be valid, therefore, start with a clear objective and focus. I must hear and talk about it to learn it.” Therefore, allow faculty to self-question, write in a learning journal, and practice shared planning.

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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? None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 8, 2022

In previous blogs and our podcasts, you have heard us discuss how corporate governance is “infiltrating” higher education governance. Board Recruitment In the past (and in some cases currently), board appointments were often made as a “thank you” for political support or donations. Is there robust discussion about the issues?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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HEPI

APRIL 3, 2023

This blog was kindly written by Melissa Bowden from Kortext, in conversation with Sir Tim O’Shea. ChatGPT is a hot topic in higher education, with concerns about how it will impact on academic integrity and student assessment. Pre-trained transformers such as ChatGPT are just an enhanced way of text generation from online resources.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? Nevertheless, I must confess to mixed feelings about these units. Writing as a relic of the 1960s, I ask, must we replicate within universities the status hierarchies that prevail in higher education as a whole? Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history.

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Changing Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2015

Readers of this blog know that Disrupting College by Clayton M. Education, according to CHCS, follows the generic Value Added Process business model, in which (generically speaking) an incomplete input is transformed into an output which is more complete and of higher value. Christensen, Michael B.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The early 19th century witnessed the rise of a new life stage. The mills were loud and filthy, the air stale and polluted, the pay low. As of 2006, there were already between 6,000 and 7,000 studies of the impact of college on students. What, we might ask, do these studies tell us?

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