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Transitioning from Faculty to Administration

Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

Tammi Cooper, Associate Dean in the School of Business at Northcentral University, shares her knowledge from her own often-bumpy transition from faculty to academic administrator, covering the following key topics: The challenge of the transition. Key areas for administrator success. The higher education environment is complex.

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Defend your college’s academic freedom: Here’s a toolkit to help you do it

University Business

Last year, proposed legislation prohibiting how teachers discuss race, racism and other topics that touch identity spiked 250%, according to PEN America, 39% of which targeted higher education. A sign of a healthy democracy is the level of rigor and freedom of debate in higher education institutions.

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

Dr Zoe Ayres created a poster of common stressors for academics for part of the mental health series (see Figure 1) which highlights the multiple facets and identities an academic contends with within their working life. Centralisation and reduction of academic administrative staff moves much of the work onto the academics.

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Adapting to Disruption: Unity University’s Remarkable Success – Part 1: Changing Higher Ed podcast 194 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Melik Peter Khoury

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton Discover how Unity Environmental University thrived under Dr. Melik Khoury, embracing disruption for significant growth and sustainability in higher ed. Khoury has cut tuition in half and significantly reduced institutional debt.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

In my own case, I came onto the academic job market in the early 1980s, a time of severe global recession when jobs in many fields, including higher education, were scarce. To some extent, this is inevitable when, say, a faculty member assumes administrative responsibilities. Research priorities may need to shift.

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Ed Tech Spotlight: StudyTree

Higher Ed Connects: Ed Tech

I met one of the founders of StudyTree , Ethan Keiser, at the Entrepreneurship in Education workshop hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton campus in San Francisco. StudyTree integrates academic support services of higher education institutions with artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile academic assistant.”.

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Can your school benefit from a consortium to keep its scientific research alive?

University Business

However, as states continue to tighten their budgets for higher education and as pandemic-era federal funds dry up , colleges and universities are finding creative ways to continue with their vital research. The progress universities make to thrust society forward spurs employment and economic growth.