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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An FRN membership lets financially pressed universities like mine leverage NYU’s resources to offer great opportunities for professional development and scholarly production.

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. Faculty members who hosted workshops were awarded with professional development credit.

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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

There is a danger that companies presenting solutions that may work for continuing professional development will fail to recognise that a 10 year old has a different relationship with knowledge. The third aspect of AI implementation for individuals is around personal digital identity.

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Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

She is particularly passionate about sustainable mining of energy-critical elements and addressing climate change inequality in her home state of California. Intveld’s work at Cambridge will build upon her extensive research experience at MIT.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

We saw each other on camera during virtual pedagogical or professional development events hosted by our institution and heard each other’s names at teaching-related initiatives. Reprinted with permission. Background As faculty, our (Assif and Kim) collaboration started during COVID.

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Burnout and Work-Work Balance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Overcoming mine meant medical leave and ultimately changing careers and institutions. Rebecca Pope-Ruark is the director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Everyone’s experience with burnout is going to be different.

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ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To make matters worse, many colleagues feel incompetent in offering the kinds of writing instruction and feedback that students require, with professional development training largely unavailable. However, if this tool is to live up to its potential, it must mine the proprietary databases in which serious scholarship resides.