Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting. then versus about 1.5%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Elizabeth Dellavedova, associate library director at a community college, connected with me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Q: Can you share your concerns about my blog post on academic library spending? Encouraging students to visit the library is not enough.

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CAPD

JANUARY 17, 2024

The IAP offerings from the MIT libraries are better than ever this year, with events ranging from book club-style discussions to workshops on data management. Highlighted event topics include “Data Management for Postdocs and Research Scientists”, “GIS Topics: Introduction to Remote Sensing,” AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

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? Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 7, 2023

Greetings from the ANU New Research Showcase: Climate, Energy & Disasters. This included a flood through the Library behind him, and a hailstorm, after which the roof is still being repaired (you can see the orange plastic wrap in the photo). where the Vice Chancellor is opening the event.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

Neelam Bharti Neelam Bharti has been appointed associate dean of research and learning services for Florida State University Libraries. Bharti earned a master’s in library and information science from the University of Missouri and a doctoral degree in bio-medicinal chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia in India.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

Lauren Di Monte Lauren Di Monte has been appointed associate university librarian for research and learning at Yale University Library. Di Monte holds a bachelor’s degree in visual studies and a master’s in information from the University of Toronto and in interdisciplinary studies from York University in Toronto.

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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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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

by Anita Toh As scholarly research into and using generative AI tools like ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, it is crucial for researchers to understand the intersections of copyright, fair use, and use of generative AI in research. This evokes the question: Why doesn’t the proposed research align with fair use?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Decades of research show that individuals from marginalized communities, including Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ populations, consistently experience poorer health outcomes compared to white peers. These words or actions, whether we want to believe it or not, result from stereotypes we have about individuals without our conscious knowledge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

A member of the Crow Tribe of Montana and a Sioux, Ponca and Chickasaw descendent, Fitzpatrick, an attorney, previously served as a specialist in natural resources policy for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Strauss, director of Brown’s John Hay Library , which acquired Abu-Jamal’s records, writings, and artwork last year together with Brown’s Pembroke Center. “By Abu-Jamal’s papers will be available for research Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity. There will be a seminar room, study space, and lounge, all headquartered on the first floor of the library. The library symbolically serves as the central point of academic learning in an academic institution.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. Budget cuts—real or imagined—are not the only challenge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It requires that schools teach students about the research process and how information is created and produced, the difference between facts, points of view, and opinions, and the ethical production of information. Bill S588 received bipartisan support and passed today by a 36-0 vote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The statement encourages improvement of working conditions for educators to combat the teacher shortage and a commitment to keeping public educational spaces public, including schools, libraries and community centers. particularly in the nation’s public schools and libraries,” the statement reads. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

is not just about learning, reading, or writing Navajo, it’s really preparing [its students] with tools so that they will be efficient in designing their research studies, conducting research, and finding solutions to some of the challenges that we have,” says Guy. Elmer Guy “The Ph.D. Those same students are talented, creative.

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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

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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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? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. Academic libraries are going to change and if you work in them, you will need to grow and change as well.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mims says the work is particularly crucial for Black girls, who are at the heart of her research agenda. Much of the language that Mims uses in her research is about liberation for Black students. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. Student success within the library can mean having a quiet study space, finding materials for classwork or receiving research guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. This is the first exposure many incarcerated learners have to independent, self-directed research, which is foundational to an immersive, quality college education.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” In 2020, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley sued the San Francisco–based Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library, which was created when physical libraries closed during COVID-19 lockdowns. ” Libraries that engage in controlled digital lending do so in many ways.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Researchers found that the total number of student worker bargaining units has now risen to approximately 85 units, with many of them from 2022 and 2023 – 30 units in total over the two years. candidate in sociology wrote in an email to Diverse.

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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. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yet, over the past few weeks, I’ve become akin to an undergrad at the University of Oxford, where I’m doing a six-month fellowship researching how journalists report on missing people. Getting to see the elitist, constipated bowels of the institution is fascinating enough.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Gordian, a facility and construction management leader, analyzed its extensive higher education database, conducted qualitative research on campuses and spoke with facilities services leaders to examine how colleges and universities are managing their physical space three years removed from the disruption of the pandemic.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2023

Here’s what looks good on a college application It’s not what you do, but how well you do it Many folks think that there is some secret check list that one follows to get into selective colleges: community service, academic research, leadership, sports, the arts, an internship. Research is not just for science, either.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

You could take it anywhere and use for it anything from eating meals to studying in a library. With the help of Snipes, she’s now researching larger-scale manufacturing and making adjustments. What if there were a foldable, adjustable tray that could connect securely to the underside of any table with a screw?

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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. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Two sessions continued on Thursday during the second and final day of the Black Men Research Institute’s (BMRI) Spring Symposium. The convening continued its conversation on the mental health of African American men at the Woodruff Library in the heart of the Atlanta University Center. Kimbrough, Interim Executive Director of BMRI.

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