Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We’re opening new programs this fall that I am confident will be exciting for our students. We’ve reorganized departments and schools, to try to create stronger identities for each and partnerships that will cultivate more curricular change and collaboration. Budgets are still daunting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Since 2020, it seems as though anyone with any sort of leadership role in higher education has pledged their anti-racism bona fides. These questions provoked some deep uncertainty from Brianne Sanchez, the dean of student success at South Seattle College. But actual anti-racist leadership is a different and trickier matter.

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ACPA

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dr. Pruitt -Logan’s career of contribution to higher education began at Howard University in 1950 as Resident Intern and Women’s Counselor. She later held the positions of Dean of Women and Dean of Students at Albany State College in Georgia and in a similar position at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Department of Education (DOE), at least 25% of full-time equivalent students enrolled must be Hispanic. These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Hiring practices have been implemented to help attract and retain Hispanic faculty.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Michelle Morgan, Dean of Students at the University of East London. This piece is the second part of two discussing the rise in student mental health issues. Higher education has come a long way in recognising and being aware of mental health issues that students enter their studies with.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education institutions have intricate structures that are inherently difficult to change, and having a framework in place empowers these large institutions to effectively steer through complexities, embrace innovation, and align with shifting educational demands. The results were nothing short of remarkable.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning. Be referred to the Dean of Students?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now, 70 years later, the new funds will be used to assist current students who can incur higher college-related expenses related to their disability for such things as assistive technology, or note-takers or interpreters, or for housing that can accommodate large medical equipment, among other things. “This is a monumental moment.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021. In fact, the move from opportunity to execution happened more quickly than is characteristic in higher education. There are some important lessons to draw from the experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

What CDU has been able to do is attract students who look like and speak the language of the communities and people they want to serve, something that few of the nation’s medical schools can claim, said Dr. Arthur Gomez, senior associate dean of medical education at the new medical school.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning. Be referred to the Dean of Students?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. The Mindful Learning Framework can help your students truly own their educational journey. What does it mean?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This dual reality was thrown into stark relief last week when Thomas Meixner, professor and chair of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot dead in his office building, apparently by a former graduate student in the department. A second, unnamed person reportedly was injured by a bullet fragment.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. The Mindful Learning Framework can help your students truly own their educational journey. What does it mean?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation. Sabrina Conza, a program officer for campus rights advocacy at FIRE who wrote the letter, reminded Burwell that the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“A lot of this process was really instinct,” said Goldberg, who had accrued 4,387 signatures on the petition as of Tuesday night—including a few big-name alumni such as Eddie Glaude, the chair of Princeton University’s department of African American studies and a well-known scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Leaders of the new ALACRITY center, or Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness, plan to launch multiple research projects focused on the mental health of students starting this upcoming academic year.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some faculty members have also gone out of their way to create air-conditioned areas where students can hang out, he said. For example, the chair of the performing arts department put extension cords, power strips and cold drinking water in the lobby of the performing arts building so students could use it as a lounge.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

I would encourage them to think about the kind of legal education they want and the kind of academic environment that will help them grow,” Ho said at the event. Department of Health and Human Services planned to give out free crack pipes. (Ho His plan is to force change at Yale by squeezing enrollment.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

In March and April, WCET surveyed higher education leaders around the United States. Clearly campuses are struggling to make sense of AI and its impact on higher education. The post The Five Things You Should be Doing to Prepare for AI’s First Full Year at College appeared first on WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pete Zuraw of Gordian, publisher of the annual State of Facilities in Higher Education Report , recalls one facilities leader at a Midwestern university announcing he was finally at the head of the table—but he quipped, “I’m the only one at the table because everyone else has gone home.

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FIRE

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We replaced our digital listserv with what alumni fondly remember as “the Wall” to encourage students to take time to reflect and resolve their differences face-to-face. This Comment argues that existing doctrine supports recognizing a student’s right to be free from political orthodoxy in public education.

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