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Seven ways to leverage faculty development for student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development.

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Diversity, Equity and Student Success Conference Plots Agenda for the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

PHILADELPHIA— Despite the ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion within higher education, more than a thousand educators gathered in-person and virtually late last week to share strategies and brainstorm ways to center equitable outcomes for the students who attend their institutions. Dr. Michael A.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Without innovation no organization can thrive.

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In Search of Authentic Infrastructure: An AI Imperative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A recent article published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mentioned faculty concern about the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. Institutions must examine the bowels of their infrastructures to advance student, staff, and faculty development from “artificial” to “authentic.”

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An Unexpected Key to Performance in Gateway Math Courses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For many community college students, gateway math courses—required for entry into many programs of study—have functioned more like gatekeeper math courses. The colleges were in different regions and settings, ranged in size from small to large, and had racially diverse student bodies.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

education or universities, specifically. However, there is a network of tribally run colleges and universities that are the ongoing extension of those sovereignties as well as key vehicles for continuing to liberate the sovereign potential. These priorities often are not the focus in U.S. There are 37 TCUs within the U.S.

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Humanizing Online Learning with Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock

Continuous Learning Institute

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn about the power of humanizing online learning for college students. In this episode, I interview Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty at the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (Scroll down to access the transcript.) I give a prompt to faculty to think about.