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Binghamton University Looking to Hire 30 Replacement Faculty and 36 New Faculty with $6.5 Million SUNY Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million SUNY grant and is looking to hire 30 replacement faculty and 36 new faculty, Pipe Dream reported. The grant – part of a $53 million SUNY-wide hiring initiative – will go towards creating faculty positions with a heavy focus on research. BU deans were asked to create proposals for the new faculty positions.

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Ohio State Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For sustained and distinguished excellence in pharmaceutical research pertaining to the pathogenesis and treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Meg Daly , professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology and associate dean of undergraduate education. Dr. Natividad Ruiz , professor of microbiology.

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Endowed Chairs and the "Dark Matter" of Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

More than a century ago, Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair critically exposed the structure and history of US higher education. Yet there is still much that the public doesn't know about the higher education business. The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education Others have followed.

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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Maintaining student engagement is difficult; this is not a controversial opinion or surprise to most faculty. Stoner and Fincham (2012) say, “Part of the responsibility of being a faculty member is to identify what motivates students and to adapt teaching styles so that they are conducive to effective learning” (para. Introduction.

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Maximizing Your Summer

The Scholarly Teacher

Be SMART About Your Summer Planning: Primary Goals and Secondary Outcomes One option is to set a series of SMART goals, which have been used for decades across all areas of higher education (Wingert & Persky, 2022). Even in a “good” year, though, working in higher education is, well, a lot of work. & McTighe, J.

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Top Design Trends for Health Sciences Education Facilities

Clark Nesxen

Visual connections between different floors in the Health Sciences Center support impromptu “collisions” between students, faculty, and providers in the facility, while transparent breakout rooms put collaboration on display. Top trend: integrating spaces for students and faculty to decompress, socialize.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Despite all of the complaints about how bad textbooks are and how clueless these companies are, the relationship between textbook publishers and faculty is unusually intimate. You can fairly accuse the textbook publishers of many different faults and sins, but not taking faculty input seriously isn’t one of them.