Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I didn’t realize until my student made the comment above on how the broader shift in our society toward scientific skepticism would bear out in the classroom. As we worked through information literacy lessons in class, I gained insights into how students access and process information in their day-to-day lives. PressBooks.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Competing petitioners simultaneously urged government to, ‘ make teaching about colonialism and its impact on society mandatory’ , while others advocated schools ‘ embrace our colonial history with pride [in] how we saved the free world countless times’.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. Society doesn’t expect all students to be equally talented at art, music or athletics.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

In Museum Studies our researchers are emphasising the dynamic relationship between museums and society and the significant role museums can play in advancing equality and diversity. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives. per cent of people living in Leicester are from ethnic minority groups.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’d been impacting the lives of 5,000 students, and I wanted the challenge of impacting the lives of 180,000 students, not to mention 350,000 learners that aren't even degree-seeking. That was really reaffirming for me as a guy who lived in a bunch of different backgrounds.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

To look all the way back to 1987, the AAUP used estimates from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, a series of nationally representative surveys. ” “It means lowering labor costs, frankly, and part of the way to do that is to get graduate workers to teach more classes,” said van der Naald, a Ph.D.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. . For instance, Black graduates make up only 4.7 Women represent 52.3

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2020, for instance, in response to conversations about the role of social work in and around traditional policing, Dettlaff co-wrote an open letter to the profession warning against framing social work as a panacea to structural problems within policing systems and society. ” (McClain did not respond to an interview request.).

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In December 2022, my colleagues and I took over 40 presidents to Los Angeles to experience virtual reality live and in-person (ironically) with Dreamscape Learn , a new venture spearheaded by esteemed Hollywood producer Walter Parkes. How and when will these technologies achieve scale in society and higher ed?

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The Student Affairs Collective

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This post is part three in our three part series on the #SAGrad search for #CSAM18. I identify as a queer, gender non-conforming black femme. Over the last year that I have lived in Vermont, I have learned quite a lot about the ways I show up in the world as a scholar, professional, and an advocate for social justice.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

In addition to covering tuition, the program also covers textbooks, computers, and living expenses. Program goals include creating a more diverse seminar series and providing mentoring and networking opportunities. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

She has developed a program named CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place — Advancing Better Living for Elders), which combines handyman services, nursing care, and occupational therapy to improve mobility, reduce disability, and decrease health care costs for older adults hoping to avoid nursing home care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I had an opportunity to be around greatness and to aspire for greatness,” says Prescod, the first Black woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships as well as a team gold medal at the 2018 World Championships. “It It was a lot of character development in terms of discipline and learning commitment.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a moment when language appears to be especially fraught. Language is increasingly viewed as a key component in American culture’s structures of power, which privilege masculinity, denigrate Blackness, equate darkness with evil or sin, and normalize or obfuscate inequality and difference.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

To take an example, the phrase “Mexican Americans,” while convenient, is ethnocentrically Anglo, for as inhabitants of the Americas, Mexicans living south of the Rio Grande are as American as citizens of the United States, whom Hispanics call estadounidenses. In 1994, when the U.S.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today I’m thrilled to help kick off our Frontiers and WCET Steering Committee working group series on equity and quality in higher education digital learning. While all racial demographics showed a decrease in post-secondary enrollment in the Spring of 2021, Black and Indigenous students were impacted the most.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Listeners are encouraged to contemplate how they welcome people into their lives and communities.

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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. “This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.”

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 17, 2023

This is why we are sharing information on Every Learner Everywhere’s upcoming series “Strategies for Success Through Digital Learning.” In this talk we will explore the ways in which we can reconnect our classroom practice with the values, behaviors and mindsets needed for a socially just society. Bryan Dewsbury.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Dr. Yoshiko Harden While Scott’s investment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is well-documented, her contributions to community colleges have not received as much attention. People have been doing it in living rooms and classrooms and workplaces for thousands of years.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 11, 2023

She cited Georgia State’s Tim Renick , who is willing to tell the story of recognizing how poorly his institution was serving its Black student population: “He acknowledged that nobody will just call it like it is and say, ‘It feels bad to do this job poorly, and what we were doing was not good, and it felt awful.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Teachers have simply become among the most undervalued professionals in our society. Imagine teaching to a mass of empty, black boxes that give no feedback. One of the best feelings following a bad exam is seeing a generous curve after the results are live. This post is part of our Teacher Appreciation series. Overworked.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Today, remnants of middlebrow culture live on, evident in PBS’s American Masters series or in Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions book series and even the game show Jeopardy! Middlebrow culture also contributed to the midcentury illusion of a unitary society. Joseph Horwitz’s recent Dvo?ák's

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar’s personal project is BlackPlayBook, which seeks to re-vision “black play” as cultural production that counters gender, race and class-based oppression. BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

An antislavery bust of a woman bound with a rope by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (who is described by the Met as a “liberal romantic”) is interpreted as an example of a white artist’s “dominion over Black people’s bodies.” Let me offer an indication of what campuses might do.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Higher Education Progress and Transformation in 2023 Technology as a Driver of Change Technology has been a significant driver of change in society and, by extension, in higher education. We could have a whole series of podcasts on that. [00:09:44] Mean you live in interesting times. Well, you can’t live in a silo.

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