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

Insight Into Diversity

NEEL is a national nonprofit organization focused on expanding social and economic mobility for high school students. High schools pay a fee to NEEL of $250 per student and colleges provide the faculty member, teaching fellows, and course curriculum. Faculty develop and co-facilitate courses with the high school teachers.

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12 questions to advance your online ed strategy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A review of recent market successes indicates an approach to online education that leverages finite institutional resources, enhances strategic goals related to access and student success, supports the goals of partner organizations, and ensures a high-quality academic product may be valuable.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jenkins, who is Associate Provost for Faculty Development and a Professor of Higher Education at the University of South Carolina said that the power of Hip-Hop can't simply be reduced to music. Jenkins encouraged conference attendees to embrace “Hip-Hop: A Culture that Unites Us in the Pursuit of Excellence.”

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An Unexpected Key to Performance in Gateway Math Courses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To study the elements causing success—or failure—in gateway math courses, a team of researchers at Education Equity Solutions (EES), an organization focused on higher ed policy reform, examined records for over 22,000 students at four California community colleges.

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The Shift in Digital Learning Modalities: Is Higher Education Ready?

WCET Frontiers

Some senior faculty are not able to fill their course loads during in-person traditional timeframes. Some faculty and staff now live in other states. An accrediting team questioned an institution as to why faculty development was not keeping up with increases in digital courses. Buildings feel a bit emptier.

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Building community in online conferences, events (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We recently worked with others to organize Equity Unbound’s #MYFest22 , a virtual event that sought to center community and support, and rethink the many pitfalls of online, in-person and hybrid events that we’ve seen in the past two years, and even before the pandemic. Have a diverse community of organizers.