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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carolyn Terry The annual Delphi Award – sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education – commends and rewards schools giving support to non-tenure-track, contingent and/or adjunct faculty, according to its website.

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Dr. Lynn Akey Appointed Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Other roles Akey has served in at the school since her arrival in 2000 include associate vice president for institutional research, strategy, and effectiveness; assistant vice president for institutional research, planning, and assessment; director of institutional research, planning, and assessment; assistant to the vice president for student affairs; (..)

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Class Size and Student-to-Faculty Ratios: What the Statistics Don’t Tell You

Great College Advice

Student to Faculty Ratios and Educational Quality When a client asked me the other day about the importance of student to faculty ratios, I got to thinking about other supposed indicators of educational quality. Student to Faculty Ratios Can Mislead But the statistics, beautiful though they are, do not tell you the whole story.

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3 ways faculty and administrators are embracing AI beyond the classroom

University Business

Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide. The post 3 ways faculty and administrators are embracing AI beyond the classroom appeared first on University Business.

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The Policy, Research, & Practice Disconnect

Dr. Al Solano

The disconnect between policy, research, and practice is extraordinarily real for college practitioners. The intersection of policy, research, and practice at the center of this Venn diagram is often an illusion. A recent research paper analyzed community college institutional research office mission statements.

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‘An Invisible Tax’: Study Finds That Schools Lag in Utilizing Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. Borgman, distinguished research professor in information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of the study’s authors. “We

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Budget cuts hit all colleges totaling over $11 million - Stephanie King, Golden Gate Express

Ray Schroeder

The University Budget Committee held the first meeting of the academic year presenting budget cuts to all six colleges and a 25% cut to faculty affairs. We will have fewer lecturer faculty because we have lower enrollments. “We We will have fewer lecturer faculty because we have lower enrollments.