Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

I have previously blogged about doctored program information submitted by four prominent universities—Rutgers University, Temple University, Claremont McKenna College, and Iona College. The university gave false information about standardized testing, student debt, grade point averages of admitted students, student-faculty ratios and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I could brag about the thousands of lives that have been changed by the community college mission. I could talk for hours about access initiatives such as self-placement models and open educational resources or brilliant faculty who guide and support critical thinking. By this time, he had truly found his groove. Elizabeth M.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. Pathways to professorship is a remarkable book. With two exceptions, these are all women.

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Deans for Impact

MAY 9, 2023

Deans for Impact partnered with Instruction Partners to reflect on the importance of fostering a continuum of support for pre-service and in-service teachers to enact evidence-based early literacy instruction. Read more about in-service support on the Instruction Partners blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2024

She didn’t buy the book for me as a young aspiring journalist who was still in college at the time, although I’m sure she would have. In 1997 — just three years after McCall’s book came out — Black people represented about 12% of the population, but only 5.42% of the newsroom workforce. Not much has changed since then.

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Deans for Impact

MARCH 8, 2023

I’m learning so much…about how to be a teacher,” says Camryn Swann, NIU senior and aspiring middle school humanities teacher. Interested in joining the ATTN or learning more about the policy recommendations? Contact Patrick Steck, Senior Director of Policy, at psteck@deansforimpact.org.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Some may favor, for example, reading a print book outside surrounded by the Northeast Kingdom’s live audio of spring peepers. But its botched announcement, in which “all-digital” is a misnomer, failed to recognize students’ and professors’ emotional attachment to print books.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Teachers also prioritize open educational resources to minimize book costs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Legal scholars write about law. Along the way, she distinguished herself by writing and lecturing about current issues in the news, including reproductive and voting rights and the criminalization of disability. Gowder, a Professor of Law and associate dean of research and intellectual life at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law.

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The PIE News

APRIL 3, 2024

What do you like most about your job? I like that I’ve worked in many countries before; as a dean, as a pro-vice-chancellor, including in the UK. Could you tell me about a defining moment in your career? I went to Africa about 20 years ago or so for a graduation in Rwanda, just outside Kigali.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. My generation of academics was the luckiest in history.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Encourage the introvert When I started teaching online in my twenties, I was so excited about it that I told all my friends they should do it too. About two years after I started, a few of my extroverted friends landed online teaching positions only to quit a few months in. Isn’t that what life’s all about?”

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A majority of the faculty at a panel discussion held on campus about AI expressed concerns over plagiarism, copyright, academic integrity, etc. I did not have any interest in learning about it either. After attending the panel discussion, however, I was reminded of a book I read called Who Moved My Cheese?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours. I serve as a director to make sure we’re going in a direction that will continue to grow the program.”

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

And why are universities not generally talked about as charities, in the same way as, say, Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Support? The book is not part of the genre that follows Cardinal Newman’s seminal work, The Idea of the University , but scrutinising universities through a novel charity lens does prompt a certain degree of re-imagining.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Journalists Toluse Olornnipa and Robert Samuels will discuss their new book, His Name is George Floyd , connecting the past with the present. It helps us to think about and rededicate ourselves to our mission, which is to develop men of disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service,” said Crawford. “I Dr. Vicki L.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But we also fell in love because we are educators who are passionate about assessment. Throughout the series, he guides his players into various experiences requiring personal and collective reflection about their life goals. For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). What about if they disclosed their use of ChatGPT ahead of time? Now, think about your students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

The woman holding the book has her forefinger on her closed lips with the fingernail facing outward; her brow is furrowed and eyes are narrowed. The complaint filed about the shared photo did not get routed through campus disciplinary channels. Another young woman is seated next to her, and they appear to possibly be in a dorm room.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy Last week, I wrote about the 2022 year-end omnibus bill and connected with Rebecca Natow on Twitter. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” At the beginning of a career, most of us don’t think much about the philosophy that guides our teaching. Leigh, J., & Dean, K. © Magna Publications. Beatty, J.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But we also fell in love because we are educators who are passionate about assessment. Throughout the series, he guides his players into various experiences requiring personal and collective reflection about their life goals. For example, consider a faculty member who pursues assessment for the strict purpose of “satisfying the Dean.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

These raucous, madcap, zany comedies -- the comic, flippant antitheses of Love Story ’s over-the-top solemnity and earnestness-- reinforced a host of stereotypes about college life: The uppity frat boys, the overbearing deans, the uptight professors clueless about the real world.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Since he began his distinguished academic career after transitioning from the private sector, we were eager to hear his wisdom about how it affected his approach to academic leadership, the guidance and opportunities that he's offering his students, and the perceptions and expectations around a job well done. Adding the Human Element.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MAY 17, 2024

Indeed, at the recent AMBA & BGA Global Deans and Directors Conference, the application of AI in executive business education was a key topic of discussion. Andrew explains, ‘where there are concerns about the technology, we want to learn about and address those through research and further innovation so we can inform and evolve’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. That’s the goal of coaching: to help students grow into the individuals they came here to be.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. Gmelch, who, at the time, served as dean of Iowa State’s College of Education and had emerged as a national expert on college deans. “I Jerlando F.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. There’s a great book waiting to be written on this one.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). What about if they disclosed their use of ChatGPT ahead of time? Now, think about your students.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 7, 2024

Throughout my career, I've tried to take some of those lessons about relationships. You try to keep it real, and just really talk about, ‘Look, this is why, and this is what I have to consider.’ But that's what I keep talking about to our campuses. I'll never forget a book called The Last Republicans, about George H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

before she became a full professor and a dean, before she published the book that sums up her life's work and her life experience, Terah Venzant Chambers was shaking in a pew. It’s a concept that she’s been refining for 16 years, culminating in the release of Racial Opportunity Cost , her first book, this month.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In one of the blurbs for Status and Culture on Amazon, Douglas Rushkoff says that the book “is both a rigorous social analysis and a delightful guilty pleasure.” ” How many books can you read where you both learn about the rise and fall of Vanilla Ice while engaging with grand cultural theorizing?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” At the beginning of a career, most of us don’t think much about the philosophy that guides our teaching. Leigh, J., & Dean, K. © Magna Publications. Beatty, J.

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HEPI

MAY 19, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. This , I decided, would be the new experience I had been searching for: I would finally take myself to task and explore why I felt so strongly about these things. I have my own car.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

We pose a question that one of the healers in Toni Cade Bambara’s (1980) Salt Eaters proposes to the book's main character, “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?” Have a conversation with your body about what you have done to it and apologize if necessary. What about how it makes you feel? Do you love what you do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), founding dean and now president emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and co-founder of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS). The panelists also discussed what they would change about medical education as it stands now. Sure, we've made some progress.

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