Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

If institutions continue this pattern, baseline criteria for "inclusive excellence" within all campus program content will also remain unacceptable. Institutions must examine the bowels of their infrastructures to advance student, staff, and faculty development from “artificial” to “authentic.”

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

The EAB fellowship has allowed me to focus, on behalf of Ball State University, on the question: What does meaningful faculty development look like at every career milestone? Further, the opportunity to work with higher education colleagues from across the country, at a variety of institutions, was invaluable.

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ACRLog

APRIL 29, 2024

After a decade as a librarian, I left libraries for a while and was director of faculty development at UNLV, in the provost’s office. Last year I returned to the library faculty as science liaison. And clearly, institutional culture has a huge impact on the roles that librarians find themselves in.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. To this end, developing authentic assessment tasks might be the most effective approach for educators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Institutions were founded on lands of Indigenous peoples as part of the larger goals of colonialism and conquest. These institutions offer opportunities for Tribal Nations to determine how, and in what ways, higher education takes form to best serve the peoples, lands, and waters that make up their local communities.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Universities are increasingly concerned about student success during this era of the Great Disengagement, and faculty success (more specifically, providing care to faculty so they can succeed and in turn support the needs of students) should be an equal priority.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. To this end, developing authentic assessment tasks might be the most effective approach for educators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change. Moreover, institutions are grappling with faculty burnout, dissatisfaction, and resignations at growing rates.

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University Business

JULY 21, 2023

Through the tuition revenue they accrue by teaching lectures to the federal grant dollars they gain through sponsored research, faculty may be the financial pulse of an institution. Interfolio is a higher education technology company focused on faculty affairs.

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Creatrix Campus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to a recent survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, institutions adopting OBE witness a remarkable 25% increase in student engagement and a transformative 15% surge in graduation rates. It also leads to a 20% boost in institutional effectiveness, fostering a dynamic learning environment.

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PeopleAdmin

JULY 7, 2023

“For so many of us, it’s the on-campus environment and life that makes our jobs interesting and makes an institution a great place to work. We have to realize that our employees and faculty experienced loss of community, along with other losses, during the pandemic. The pandemic shifted all of that for a long time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

As institutions continue to evolve, so must the way boards operate. Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

Enable seamless credit transfer: The choice based credit system facilitates the transfer of earned credits between institutions, ensuring smooth educational progression. CBCS facilitates seamless credit transfer between institutions, providing students with more educational mobility options.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 19, 2023

We have to have asynchronous professional development so that faculty are immersed in the type of environment that we want them to bring into their own classes." About Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock Dr. Pacansky-Brock is a noted leader in higher education with expertise in online teaching, course design, and faculty development.

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Continuous Learning Institute

MARCH 31, 2024

Grading Reform: More faculty than ever before are reimagining grading practices. 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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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2023

An OPM, in this context, is an external entity that provides bundled products and/or services to help educational institutions create, market and administer their online programs. However, declining enrollments and unmet promises by OPMs have left institutions searching for a more self-sustaining approach to online education.

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Academic Tech Tips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Their latest webinar offering on how to include AI in institutional policy offers a puzzle map for approaching the complex issue of AI. An Exigence for Faculty Development A silver lining that AI authoring brings to our attention is the prompt for enriching faculty development through dialogue and creative learning design.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

We’ve heard that many institutions have used the summer to examine how they will integrate (or not) AI into their campuses. In fact, the majority (52 percent) reported that their institution had no strategy at all. In March and April, WCET surveyed higher education leaders around the United States.

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 4, 2024

Reflecting the candidate’s values and interests is crucial, and your team can take advantage of existing information by linking to pages that show off the institutional experience. Another way is to remember that everyone who works at your institution went through the application process at some point.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

The top 10 online-only institutions enroll 20 percent of the online-only students in the U.S., This imbalance has left many state systems and individual institutions wondering how they can carve out their piece of the pie and how big a piece they should try to cut. spending millions of dollars each year on marketing.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 30, 2023

The mix of courses with digital components demanded by students and offered by institutions has changed. This new report, released today, details the results of a survey on faculty and student desires regarding digital learning offerings and faculty readiness for the digital learning shift. Buildings feel a bit emptier.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

For example, instructors can make online courses more accessible by partnering with instructional designers, faculty developers, and disability support services to ensure that they are employing technology in equitable ways. This is something that institutions can encourage and leverage to build community for online students.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For example, the main characters may be a working parent trying to home-school his children, a migrant worker trying to access state medical services, or a first-generation college student trying to navigate the unspoken rules of the institution. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

The VA now conducts programs for more than 120,000 health care students and trainees annually in affiliation with over 1,800 educational institutions, including 97 percent of the country’s medical schools. Nearly 70 percent of all physicians have trained with the VA in at least one of its 170 medical centers.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. These intentional actions include programs, leadership development, initiatives, and system changes. The program is expected to launch in spring 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Without a well-defined strategy and an understanding of an organization’s strengths and weaknesses and its competition, institutions inevitably squander their resources and energies. It’s not that institutions ignore campus inequities or student learning. It’s not what institutions say that matters.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Now I’m provost, so I’m basically overseeing all of those, plus research and faculty development and institutional infrastructure. I’ve been fortunate to work at four large, really good institutions. IU is one of those institutions where [retention and persistence] numbers are pretty good.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

– Lindsey Downs, WCET Russ Poulin, WCET I continue to learn from our institutional members about the post-COVID impact on the shifts to digital learning. Rather than “going back to normal,” faculty are teaching more online and hybrid courses and more students are enrolling in them. And what do we do with those empty classrooms?

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 23, 2024

Thank you Jenny for sharing this insight and your lessons learned from supporting institutional staff. According to the National Institutes of Health, women surpass men for invisible disabilities of all kinds: “Many common chronic conditions are not female-specific but occur at substantially higher rates in women compared to men.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 16, 2023

To effectively implement CBE, educational institutions can harness the power of online curriculum mapping. The customizable nature of the templates allows educators to adapt them to their institution's unique needs and requirements, making them a flexible tool for designing competency-based curricula. 6.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For example, the main characters may be a working parent trying to home-school his children, a migrant worker trying to access state medical services, or a first-generation college student trying to navigate the unspoken rules of the institution. Anna Conway, EdD is a professor and faculty developer at Des Moines Area Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 20, 2023

In April 2023, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) undertook a national survey to ascertain how and why postsecondary institutions are using Artificial Intelligence to support instruction and learning, what policies are in place, and what are the perceived barriers to, and benefits for, its use.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This includes low expectations from teachers or counselors about a student's ability to succeed in advanced classes, funding constraints for offering such classes, inadequate support for faculty development, and exclusionary policies like pre-requisites or grade cutoffs.

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Continuous Learning Institute

JULY 4, 2022

23:54:50: Barriers that faculty create for students. 49:04:00: Barre as a metaphor for institutional change. Resources: - Practice guide for faculty in supporting transfer students, published by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students: Supporting Transfer Student Success: Five Key Faculty Practices. -

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