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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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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

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Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Appointed Head of NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development.

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Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Others mentioned that faculty made it hard for them or seemed only interested in earning a paycheck. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Clusterluck: A Spark of Black Joy in the Academy

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of the full-time faculty in post-secondary education. As an unsettling synth beat plays, a quote from a recent study fades in: “Many institutions have recruited underrepresented scholars to join their faculty without attention to retaining and supporting the new recruits.” Dr. Candace N. We should be doing work to invest in it.”

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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

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“The report finds that Black ECAs feel uncomfortable reporting issues like harassment, which likely stems from a distrust in institutional processes,” says Jackson, an expert on higher education leadership. where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. This parallels findings in the U.S.,

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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students

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As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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