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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID. These five students, including Sonya Ho (a coauthor of this article), received research-assistant pay during the first two months and continued their work on a volunteer basis for the rest of the academic year.

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Scholarship Wrappers as Faculty Development

The Scholarly Teacher

Scholarship wrappers can help faculty get more out of their scholarship and support deeper reflection on professional learning. How can faculty support critical reflection while at the beginning or in the middle of a scholarly project, extend their learning after completion of the project, and identify and learn from mistakes?

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%.

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West Virginia U Plans to Cut 7% of Faculty, All Languages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

West Virginia U Plans to Cut 7% of Faculty, All Languages Featured Image at Top of Article Screen Shot 2022-10-26 at 6.25.23 PM.png Ryan Quinn Fri, 08/11/2023 - 04:35 PM

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 Despite the rocky returns, NACUBO found that donations to endowments increased by an average of 22 percent in 2022, for institutions with both large and small endowments. percent overall average return in 2021.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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