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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.

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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. Adapt or die.

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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change.

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UC System to Offer Online Classes to Low-Income High Schools

Insight Into Diversity

The University of California (UC) system will start offering free college courses next year to low-income high schools in the state through a collaboration with the National Education Equity Lab (NEEL). High schools pay a fee to NEEL of $250 per student and colleges provide the faculty member, teaching fellows, and course curriculum.

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Celebrating the Good

Continuous Learning Institute

Solano ) Over the past four years, higher education has faced its share of challenges and has come through with some surprising and innovative changes. Technology as a Pedagogical Ally: The technology faculty were forced to use during the Great Shift to Online is now being leveraged to improve their craft for in-person instruction.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Toldson Although the College Board has significantly expanded its AP courses over the past two decades, they have not effectively addressed longstanding racial equity issues. Regardless, it is evident any attempt to promote diversity within higher education must confront this long-standing history and its associated debates.

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