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Community College Faculty-Led Teaching and Learning Hubs Improve Student Outcomes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Dr. Audrey Jaeger and Dr. Monique B. Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? Stout’s speech hit Jaeger and Colclough in their hearts.

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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom. Despite the fact that faculty are so crucial to students’ academic lives, they are often underutilized as levers of institutional change.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSIs) has released a new report that highlights the unique challenges and needs of early-career faculty at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). That’s why professional development and mentorship play a critical role in fostering a diverse and dynamic faculty at MSIs.”

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. Increased faculty communication and outreach began with the fruitful communications participants had with other members of the CCLP Roadrunner cohort.

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Report: Caring Campus Program Tied to Increased Connection for Students and Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. At least it's one approach to helping them to fit into those efforts."

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%.

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Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Appointed President of California State University, Los Angeles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"I look forward to engaging and collaborating with Cal State LA’s talented students, staff and faculty to continue the institution’s journey to new heights in student success, research, scholarship and creative activity, and community engagement.” Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes Eanes will become the university's first woman president. “A