May, 2019

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Utilizing Existing Campus-Wide Assessments and Measures in Your Curricular Approach

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

As one of the essential elements of a curricular approach, assessment should occur at all levels of your curriculum. This includes on-the-ground assessment of individual learning activities, but also broader based assessment of overall curriculum effectiveness. One way of achieving this broader-based assessment is to utilize data collection instruments you may already be using and assessment data you may already be collecting.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Keys to Healing Unconscious Bias in Higher Edwith Dr. Mary Wardell Ghirarduzzi | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 019

The Change Leader, Inc.

Diversity, equity and inclusion continues to be critical issues for higher education. Many of these issues are fanned by repercussions of historical events as well as unconscious biases based on unknown U.S. history and individuals tending to remain in monolithic groups. Institutions of higher education have a duty to make their campuses a model of inclusivity where every student, faculty member and staff member is wholeheartedly appreciated.

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Faculty Development and Student Success

Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

by Terri Givens, Founder & CEO of The Center for Higher Education Leadership. When a graduate student makes the transition to faculty member, there are a variety of issues they face, and support they need. When we think of student success, the focus is often on advising, financial support, and other factors that indeed play a role. However, the main point of contact for students is the faculty.

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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. International education also opens doors to increasing cultural awareness and better career opportunities after graduation. In 2000, researchers assessed the impact of studying abroad on students across Georgia, and found that students had “ improved academic performance upon returning to their home campus, higher graduation rates, and improved knowledge of

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1100 Colleges and the Republic’s March to Madness

Higher Ed Connects: News

by William Devine. As higher education’s basketball tournament for men unfolded in March, US District Court Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the tournament’s revenue model is almost but not quite illegal. The revenue model’s injustice seems obvious. 1100 colleges and universities earn about $800 million per year in TV money from the tournament, yet they agree to pay no wages to players who play in it.

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Tapping into Reddit, communities, Research & AMAs in Higher Education

Terminalfour

Many universities and colleges aren't using Reddit! It's not as easy to carve out your own corner on Reddit, but if you do the results can be incredible.

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Assessments in Higher Education: Using Data to Grow UniversitiesChanging Higher Ed Podcast 020 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jamie Morley

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this podcast, Assessment: Using Data to Grow Universities with Jamie Morley we discuss why assessment is critical for ensuring instruction is effective in helping students to learn. This data is even more important as the demographics of students and expectations of what higher education should accomplish change. In this podcast, Assessment: Using Data to Grow Universities with Jamie Morley we discuss why assessment is critical to sustainability.

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Preventing College and University Closures

The Change Leader, Inc.

As the COVID pandemic swept the globe, colleges and universities have been in a rush to transform to stay financially stable. This was written before the COVID crisis but the information is now even more critical.

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Transitioning from Faculty to Administration

Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

by Dr. Tammi Cooper. Dr. 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. Creating a personal development plan. The challenge of the transition.

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The Effects of Nationalism, Politics, and Free Speech on Universities

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Effects of Nationalism, Politics, and Free Speech on Universities and Colleges across the country and the role of Higher Ed leadership.