Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Can you enlighten us?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Carey Thomas from the campus building known as Old Library, the Board of Trustees announced Tuesday in an email to the community. ” Thomas’s name was initially inscribed over the library entrance in 1935 to honor her role as Bryn Mawr’s first dean and second president.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Vermont State University has abandoned plans to go all virtual in its libraries, VTDigger reported. The university will also keep a small collection of “popular, casual, reading books” and children’s books in the libraries, administrators wrote. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 28, 2024

A new round of UM OER Grants (up to $10,000) is available to help faculty and instructors create digital, open access course materials. Through the Advance Open Ed 2023-24 project, UM Libraries provided financial and practical assistance for the creation of nine open educational resources (OER) publications.

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Ray Schroeder

OCTOBER 4, 2023

West Virginia University will reduce its libraries’ personnel budget by up to $800,000 following recommendations from the provost’s office. The dean of libraries must submit a plan for the cuts by Dec. 1, and staff will be notified if they have been terminated between Dec.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: A debate over how to achieve pay parity between two groups of faculty members has left lingering tensions among professors in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. Adjuncts who work as service faculty currently make $53 per hour, and those who only teach earn $32 per hour.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need a better content library. In response to our discussion, the Enroll360 creative team crowdsourced a list of tips and suggestions for enrollment and marketing teams who want to create the ideal asset library. What is an asset library? 7 Tenets of an Effective Campaign Asset Library. Mind the minimum quality.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Dr. Bryn Geffert The move by UVM Press – overseen by UVM Libraries – is meant to eliminate financial hurdles and barriers to peer-reviewed research that traditional publishing and access models impose. It is indeed completely free,” said Dr. Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries at UVM. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. So far, administrators have already set aside over 6,000 square feet of space to house the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The money will also go towards buying up to 150 laptops for campus and community use at Sheppard Library and its upcoming cybersecurity and information technology training center, as well as hiring faculty in technology. The upgrades are meant to improve and strengthen network infrastructure.

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CU Work-Life Balance

APRIL 24, 2023

Eligible faculty, staff and GME residents have until 5 p.m. (MT) The CU Advantage is a library of information on all CU’s benefits, perks, resources and discounts. Employee Services wants to know about faculty and staff experiences using CU Advantage items. The final page of this year’s Open Enrollment is drawing near.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He has nurtured the faculty, programming, and pedagogy of his institution and has watched it grow from a two-year technical school into a research university. Its master’s degree program in Diné Culture, Language, and Leadership required the institution to hire new faculty members and save money for a research library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

As the chair of this Board of Trustees, I would like to thank Dr. Grewal for all his hard work in support of the colleges, the system, its faculty, students, its staff and its communities, and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors,” said Eileen Dickinson, chair of the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, I used ChatGPT to help me write a letter of recommendation and to assist me with crafting my lesson plan on banned books in libraries. Maggie Melo is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I would argue that I’m better for it, too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. “We haven’t had time to assess this new cadre of students,” Trunnell said, adding that many college libraries are short-staffed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? As David spent the last 40 years working as an academic librarian and the last 20 years as a library dean, his critique carries some weight. These may not be the most prestigious or richest libraries.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, a 2022 Cengage survey of 641 US institutions found that 97% of institutions reported using faculty with no prior online teaching experience for some of their courses. Fortunately, online teaching is a competency that instructors, faculty, and staff can develop over time with the right support. Build circles of peer support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A special feature section from CUNY's Hunter College in the report about the rise in labor activity in higher ed from 2022 to 2023 illustrates the quickening pace of student worker organizing, to that degree that in the past year and a half, student worker unionization growth has surpassed that of faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Like all UPR faculty, we carry a 12-credit teaching load, and in the midst of UPR’s fiscal crisis, a basic teaching load of 15 credits has been spotted more than once on the horizon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We’re looking at creating a national clearinghouse of diversity, BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color] initiatives for minoritized students, faculty and staff at universities,” said Byrd. There’s diversity happening among students, where the pipeline is slowing down is at the faculty level.” We’ve not seen the growth that we want.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Former president Parwinder Grewal resigned abruptly in April, following widespread backlash against plans to downgrade sports programs and make libraries all-digital. Current interim president Mike Smith released recommendations to get rid of 10 degree programs and 33 faculty positions. Those plans have since been shelved.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. The Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College hosted its first Spring Symposium addressing health issues for African American men. Dr. Walter M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Johns, NBJC; Dr. Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

LGBTQIA+ Banned Book Club - Reading Gender Queer,” hosted by UPitt’s University Library System and Pitt Queer Professionals, took place Jun. Pitt also sought to teach the LGBTQ+ community how to defend themselves from physical attacks against them by offering faculty and staff self-defense training. Let’s Read It!:

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Last month, full-time faculty filed a motion of no confidence to school leadership when it announced a transition to a fully digital library, which would have eradicated roughly 300,000 books across its five campuses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

KWU’s student success coaching program gives students a personal connection to library resources and its personnel, which in turn boosts retention, says student success center director JD Koons. Each coach is affiliated with one of KWU’s majors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

That is not hyperbole, I wrote this text with several college degrees, including a doctorate, in my faculty office. In each school my white peers saw themselves reflected in the curriculum, their history was presented every day within the classroom and in the library, administrative offices, and even in the halls of the school.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

While it is also true that state appropriations rose over that same period by $7,740,082, this increase was due primarily to legislative salary increases for faculty and staff (essentially a pass through) and earmarks for special and capital projects (e.g., Jackson Library, Chiller Plant, other repairs and renovations).

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The library may be on limited hours if it is open at all. Faculty leave town and go on their own vacations. The winter holiday is not the best time for college tours Winter holiday break is just as bad, if not worse. When students leave campus, many offices also close up. Dorms are locked up tightly while students are away.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in California; and Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Institute all served as liberal arts college presidents.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Last week, Vermont State University announced plans for an “all-digital” academic library when the new institution, formed from the consolidation of three colleges, officially launches on July 1. “What we heard was that they need and want access to library resources where they are, whether on or off campus.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

The University of Rhode Island removed a partial quote by Malcolm X from the outside of its library building. The inscription read, “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. They said that using the partial quote did not convey what Malcolm X said.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

Nationwide, liberal arts colleges average 11 students per faculty member. Faculty incentives are different in liberal arts college than in major research universities. Thus the faculty who teach at liberal arts colleges also value teaching–and they hone their craft.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

Charles, an expert in constitutional law, election law, and race who joined the Harvard Law faculty in July 2021, currently serves as the inaugural Charles J. Last fall, the Ogletree family donated papers from Ogletree’s career to the Harvard Law School Library, which will make them available on a rolling basis over the next 3 years.

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Higher Ed Talent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

With the high cost of turnover and the need to retain faculty and staff in a highly competitive environment, orientation programs that address the “employee value proposition” for working at an institution have gained increasing attention. The post Six Missed Opportunities in Faculty and Staff Onboarding appeared first on HigherEDTalent.

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