EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Higher education IT teams that are stretched thin due to understaffing or additional remote learning responsibilities may be able to ease their workloads by outsourcing some aspects of faculty and staff device management.

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Technology Higher Education Faculty Schooling 89

PeopleAdmin

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

How to Optimize Faculty Activity: Best Practices for Academic Leaders Between managing teaching assignments, navigating promotion and tenure review, balancing faculty workloads, and tracking down course evaluations, academic affairs teams and academic administrators are kept busy constantly. Faculty had choices.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

I argue that in the post-COVID world, the traditional “forward design” strategic planning process no longer works—given the added workload required and financial constraints all but the most elite institutions face. End results are often unachievable, overly complex, burdensome or only incrementally different.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., Professors, librarians, coaches and other members of the California Faculty Association staged a series of one-day walkouts across four campuses last month to demand higher pay, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2023

A union representing about 800 University of Vermont faculty filed a complaint with the state’s labor board Tuesday, accusing administrators of improperly increasing their workloads.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Faculty activity reporting is an often-overlooked barrier to productivity. What does a day in the life of a faculty member at your institution look like? So when the core of academic work should be teaching, research, and service, why is admin (like faculty activity reporting) taking up so much time—and what can you do about it?

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Balancing faculty workloads has an impact on more than just a faculty member’s day-to-day. When administrators ensures that faculty have equitable and balanced workloads, taking every aspect of their roles into account, it can have a wider impact on your institution. Addressing the Faculty Balancing Act.

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

PeopleAdmin and Duke University Launch Collaboration to Tackle Complex Faculty Processes. Faculty can easily submit course assignment preferences, while administrators can determine the most qualified faculty and instructors with clear views of preference, capacity, and workload conflicts.

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PeopleAdmin

MARCH 3, 2023

In HigherEd, faculty retention and student retention are closely linked. Retaining faculty is critical to maintaining a high-quality education and a positive learning environment for students. When faculty members leave, students may feel less connected to their university, leading to decreased student retention rates.

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 11, 2023

PeopleAdmin’s Faculty Information System and Collaboration with Teaching Assignment Management System Wins 2023 BIG Innovation Award. Our multi-tenant SaaS-based solutions enable organizations to simplify their talent management process while utilizing industry-leading analytics. Our

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PeopleAdmin

MAY 12, 2023

Turnover for HigherEd employees spiked during and after the pandemic , often attributed to burnout and disengagement among faculty and staff. Read on for some HigherEd-specific strategies tackle staff and faculty burnout, reduce turnover, and increase retention. Workloads have increased, but compensation has not.

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Higher Education Education Retention Organization 52

PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Data alone can’t fuel strategic decision-making, but insights—like time-to-fill in each department, or workload balance broken down by gender—can help you identify problems and offer a path to solving them. When you take those analytics tools and use them to see correlations between data, that’s where you get insights.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

Increased workloads, pressures of research funding, lack of work-life balance and lack of management support are universal trends globally ( Kinman and Jones , 2008 ) leading to many university academics leaving the profession ( Heffernan et al , 2019 ; Ligibel et al , 2023 ).

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PeopleAdmin

OCTOBER 6, 2022

PeopleAdmin’s Faculty Information System (FIS), which is closing the digitization gap in HigherEd, was awarded a Silver Globee for Cool Product of the Year. FIS is a low- to no-touch solution designed to decrease administrative burden on faculty so they can focus on what really matters.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Retraction Watch reported that all four editors in chief of the journal Aging Cell resigned, citing workload issues and lack of support. Many journal editors are currently reporting increased workloads and difficulty finding volunteer referees to read submissions. " Ad keywords: faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

It has been acknowledged that students across diverse disciplines encounter academic stressors, including heavy workloads, unclear expectations, competition with peers, and new subject matter (Hafen et al., Managing Stress in Veterinary Students.” 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). Reisbig, Mark B.

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Advocate Students Arts And Sciences Medical School 89

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

In a news release, the union said graduate workers have cited low pay, high workloads, poor health-care benefits and lack of support for international and marginalized employees. “We will negotiate in the spirit of partnership and respect that have been the hallmarks of our labor-management relationships to date,” Ritter wrote.

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Rena Seltzer, Leader Academic

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

For too long, the majority of strategies I had to offer left the burden of managing the problem on those who were already negatively impacted. Conduct an audit of current service loads and create dashboards of faculty activities. Recommendations include: Measure the load. Transparency of benefits. Share the load.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Others denounced the use of gateway courses to “weed out” less prepared students from difficult majors and demanded that colleges and universities do more to help them manage workload-related stress. But assumptions about the relationship between workload and stress predate the pandemic by decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the American Association of University Professors’ annual faculty salary survey report shows a 0.6 percent dip in overall faculty head counts between fall 2019 and fall 2021. This bottleneck has led to increased workloads and exacerbated stress for professors during an already difficult time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

That quote from Jack Welch, American business executive and writer, has stuck with Dr. Juan Alexander, associate vice president for enrollment management at Norfolk State University (NSU), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Virginia.

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Retention Postsecondary Education Technology Recruitment 117

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

You may not be able to reduce your class size or course load, but you can manage your physical and digital work space. Seeber in The Slow Professor write that faculty are in a state of “time poverty” (2016, p. Decluttering your workspace can be used as a technique to reduce stress and manage your time better.

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Organization Faculty Technology Department 109

PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The answers were varied: 27% said that faculty members don’t always feel included in decision-making or that they know how decisions are made. 11% of respondents noted that it is challenging to determine the ROI of faculty teaching efforts, and 7% said that it is very difficult to keep track of and manage faculty workload.

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Faculty History Deans Administration 52

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

The third point decried “top-down approaches,” the fourth said shared governance with faculty was “imperiled” and the last called for a pause on “some initiatives (such as the new academic dean structure).” ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Themes included: faculty effectiveness, the challenges and opportunities of hybrid learning, and the pivotal role of data-driven decision-making. Panelist Lucas Del Priore, Product Manager at PeopleAdmin, added that faculty are stretched thin. To alleviate faculty administrative burden, automation is key.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The number of community college faculty members also dropped 8.6 Meanwhile, the loss of more seasoned employees with valuable institutional knowledge has been especially hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. Many faculty and staff, she pointed out, have had to take on extra responsibilities from other positions that have gone unfilled. They’re worn down. People are just plain overworked,” said Dr. Margaret W.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

You may not be able to reduce your class size or course load, but you can manage your physical and digital work space. Seeber in The Slow Professor write that faculty are in a state of “time poverty” (2016, p. Decluttering your workspace can be used as a technique to reduce stress and manage your time better.

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Organization Faculty Technology Department 97

EAB

MARCH 15, 2023

Blogs Accelerate your strategic goals with a chief of staff: the latest trend in independent schools Our independent school partners often ask us about the latest developments in higher education operations and management, as university trends often foreshadow how independent schools will evolve in the not-so-distant future.

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Schooling Leadership Faculty Technology 52

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Academia Faculty Professional Development Higher Education 108

Faculty Focus

APRIL 16, 2024

It has been acknowledged that students across diverse disciplines encounter academic stressors, including heavy workloads, unclear expectations, competition with peers, and new subject matter (Hafen et al., Managing Stress in Veterinary Students.” 2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). Reisbig, Mark B.

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Advocate Students Arts And Sciences Medical School 64

PeopleAdmin

MARCH 15, 2023

DEI at a higher education institution encompasses the policies and practices designed to ensure that every member of the institution (including students, faculty , and staff) have equal opportunities for success and inclusion, no matter their background. DEI initiatives in higher education are often linked to each other.

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Education Retention University Recruitment 52

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Structure vs. flexibility: Melissa Hills, an associate professor of biological sciences at MacEwan University in Canada who has written about how some flexibility around deadlines helps students manage their workloads, says both students and faculty members need structure.

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Arts And Sciences College Students Policy 101

University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide. I don’t think it does us any good to villainize these technologies, said Rebecca Sandidge, vice president for enrollment management at Oglethorpe University (Ga.).

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Administration Faculty Liberal Arts Technology 122

PeopleAdmin

JUNE 23, 2023

For instance, the faculty affairs team at the University of Alabama Birmingham faced resistance from faculty in implementing a digitized search committee process, but the team knew that they had to bring in technology. Turnover for HigherEd employees spiked during and after the pandemic , and that turnover has been driven by burnout.

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Professional Development Recruitment Retention Faculty 52

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since hybrid and remote work formats have gained popularity, many marketing managers wonder how to balance their team’s productivity and well-being. Though it might seem rather easy to have clearly defined roles, those who manage marketing teams know how difficult this can get. Discover our digital marketing services for schools!

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It’s about transforming the educational landscape to allow for greater scalability and more authentic assessment methods, without imposing an overwhelming workload on educators or requiring costly new platforms. One of the most common questions we get asked from faculty is about student’s use of ChatGPT to answer questions.

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