Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: The University of Rochester launched a training program and research study for faculty member mindfulness in January, promoting self-care, stress relief and wellness so professors can put their best foot forward in the classroom. What it is: The faculty participants attend seven Zoom workshops, engaging with wellness content material.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although a full discussion of HICC is beyond the scope of this opinion editorial, we begin with the working definition proposed by Billy Vaughn and the Diversity Officer Magazine : “…an ability to successfully negotiate cross-cultural differences in order to accomplish practical goals.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Walker, the AAUP’s grievance officer, alleged in a letter to the provost that the university had failed to follow the union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee. AAUP-Utica president Leonore Fleming said the union represents full-time faculty there, librarians and some other employees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The percentage of nonmedical, “instructional staff” faculty members at public and nonprofit private colleges and universities who work full-time but aren’t on the tenure track has almost tripled since 1987, relatively steadily increasing from 5 percent to 13 percent. “The U.S. “The U.S.

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Great College Advice

JULY 5, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Gray felt inspired to instead become a chaplain at Amarillo College and help faculty and staff of the two-year institution with their mental health struggles. Gray was more interested in the mental health of faculty and staff members. “The timing couldn’t have been more perfect,” Gray said. Jacqueline S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In what faculty leaders and board members there agree was a too-rare triumph for shared governance these days, the independent California college gave its entire full-time faculty and representative groups of staff members and students the opportunity to meet with three finalists and weigh in on the final choice.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

” “Not yet, but I have a lot of ideas …” This is a representative sample of faculty responses to the question “If you have successfully integrated use of ChatGPT into your classes, how have you done so?” ” “I will do this in the future.” ” “Yes.” ” “No way.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On its cover page, the annual education issue of the New York Times magazine uses the sardonic headline, Not U, to capture the current attitude of parts of the country toward higher education. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America” in 2013. During his time at UNC, he founded the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; led the school’s $1.2 In 2011, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on sport-related concussions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” Sponsored research awards tripled and more than 325 tenure-track faculty members were hired. You can’t be in the academy if you don’t have the best faculty and support those faculty.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Faculty can get overwhelmed at the prospect of learning how to use new technologies in the classroom — and trusting that those technologies will work during their classes.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The rise of online learning and exponential growth in the use of digital technologies in higher education has students and faculty talking, and IT teams should be taking this feedback seriously.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The pandemic opened the door for many faculty to experience teaching online that hadn’t before,” said Dr. Elizabeth M. Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. I knew we needed to up our usage of it. … Dr. Rebecca S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. “As you can imagine, people were and still are apprehensive.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

As Turner Kelly recalls, that year many Black faculty members were called upon to make statements and became de facto representatives of their institution’s commitment to diversity by virtue of their identity. Fries-Britt said that, when she first became a faculty member, she was struck by the culture of bullying that existed in academia.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

In what key areas should higher ed faculty members become most literate? The concept is broad, ranging from using specific learning tools and honing general digital skills to developing media literacy. In the context of higher education, what should digital literacy mean?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Deslauriers, director of science teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a senior preceptor in physics, and his colleagues measured students’ perception of learning when active learning is toggled on and off. That can mean changing faculty perceptions, too. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

faculty, according to one 2022 study published in Nature. The seminal magazine, along with data collection provider Statista, reviewed the alma mater and career milestones of 2,000 politicians, CEOs and other leaders and compiled the 100 colleges and universities where they studied.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. However, TCU students often transfer to PWIs to continue their education or engage in bilateral mobility between TCUs and PWIs while working toward degree requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members began striking Tuesday after their union said 12 hours of negotiations with administrators on Martin Luther King Jr. when they passed us a counter that indicated that they had no interest in resolving our differences,” the union, UIC United Faculty, wrote on its website.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 26, 2022

An article published last week in VAN , a magazine about classical music, said he had sexual relationships with students and that, in one case, he tied a female student’s career opportunities to her willingness to comply. ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier in 2022, the union at Barnard College was able to win compensation for out-of-class work for adjuncts and full-time faculty there. Rutgers AAUP-AFT – it represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and counselors – went on strike from April 10 to April 14, 2023, Givan said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we clearly have a world-class faculty that exists and teaches students and creates leaders of the future,” Boliek said. million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty.

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