Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Moreno at al.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Dr. Peter Salovey The initiative is part of a redress following Yale President Dr. Peter Salovey and Senior Trustee Josh Bekenstein’s Feb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

What are we teaching? How are we teaching it? Who’s teaching it?” We have met with faculty, staff, and students to hear their concerns, and will continue discussing with them how the school can build on its efforts to advance equity, inclusion, and diversity,” the school said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. The recruitment and retention of Latino faculty is also an element of the Seal, and CSULB has the Latinx Faculty & Staff Association.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

22 – came as a surprise to students and faculty alike, a little over a week before the new school term was set to start on Oct. The system is working with other partners to facilitate student transfers, according to its website. The Art Institute system will close permanently at the end of September, The Virginian-Pilot reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Around one-third of institutions used technology to facilitate collaborative online international learning (COIL), such as course-level partnerships between students and faculty at home campuses and abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

We went around the state and started teaching persons in non-traditional areas that college is a possibility and these are the things you need to do,” she says. I’m a great facilitator. A certificate is given upon completion of courses that teach the soft skills employers express the desire to see.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In short, the syllabus helps to create a structured and organized learning environment, facilitating effective communication and expectations between instructors and students. Furthermore, feedback loops must be baked into our teaching practices for students to provide input on the inclusivity and effectiveness of educational media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Utilizing a data-driven approach, ATD provides coaching that facilitates institutional transformation so that these colleges can have maximum impact on the lives of their students and on the communities within which they are located. The strategic plan became a focus on coaching, teaching and learning, and data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Grad students serve as teaching fellows, facilitating discussion sections and grading student work. In addition to the representational advantages, minoritized faculty may present material in a way to which students of color can more easily relate. There’s this additional resonance.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. “The California legislature put some caveats. Once they complete the course, they are assigned duties.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In these early days, I am acclimating myself to the institution, evaluating the campus climate, establishing relationships with faculty, staff and students, and becoming more connected with the local community,” says Jaamal. Inclusion has to be part of our campus’ campus culture and ethos.” My classes reinforce that: a.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Developing individual supports for each student.” “It is estimated that over 7 million people speak Spanish in Texas,” says Rueda-Acedo, who from 2005–13 was the sole faculty member. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The mentorship program is meant to provide incoming students the settings and opportunities to prepare themselves for academic careers, all the while facilitating connection among one another.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The problem: Faculty and students alike are dealing with massive and varied post-traumatic stress issues due to the increase in gun violence on our campuses, the COVID-19 shutdown, and an increasingly divisive political environment.

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This two-hour session uses interactions and conversations to teach audience members actionable ways they can support students in distress. This training is open to all Missouri State faculty and staff, and will be held on Tuesday, December 6 from 12:00PM-2:00PM in PSU313. Registration is encouraged. Register for You Can Help a Student!

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Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning will be hosting several Brightspace trainings throughout the remainder of the Fall 2023 semester and the entirety of the Spring 2024 semester. Missouri State is transitioning to a new learning management system (LMS), D2L Brightspace, which will replace the current LMS, Blackboard.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Do you offer your students digitally facilitated interactions to help them find their place on campus with options like student clubs, athletic teams, and peer mentorships? Are your teaching, learning, and assessment modalities flexible? How Thematic Major Clusters, Major Maps, and Faculty Mentorship Elevate the Student Experience.

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EAB

JANUARY 1, 2024

As any faculty member or administrator will tell you, growing new programs is a lot easier than changing—or sunsetting—existing program offerings. Annual portfolio reviews give you enough time to socialize any needed changes with faculty and allow you to intervene while there is still time to make a difference in a program’s performance.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sweeten explains, “We can help you learn to make room for new ideas through something like a design facilitation workshop guide so that you don't have to hire an expensive consultant. Building capacity: Helping practitioners enhance skills and knowledge through courses and workshops.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 23, 2024

Identifying Bottleneck Courses to Deliver Precise Academic Support Visibility into the impact individual courses have on persistence and graduation empowers provosts, academic deans, advising teams, and faculty members to identify and address barriers to student success in a clear, purposeful way.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Graduate programs often lack the centralized infrastructure that facilitates (relatively) straightforward decision-making for undergraduate enrollment. Faculty Influence. As you’ve likely experienced first-hand, faculty teaching graduate courses may be incentivized to prioritize research over expanding their teaching load.

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 24, 2022

The systems we rely on for teaching, learning and scholarship are both digital and datafied. We cannot talk about digital literacies, of course, without also considering data literacies. Better futures rely on engaging in this hard and hopeful work. Image source: John Tyson (Unsplash).

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, a recent posting for a director of academic technology included these details: In 1992, Carleton created a Learning & Teaching Center to “sponsor conversations, encourage reflection, and offer a venue for classroom innovation that bears on the challenges and opportunities of education at a distinctive liberal arts college.”.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I recently facilitated a survey of higher ed leaders to understand their data and analytics goals and pain points. Faculty and staff can’t access trustworthy data. In our survey, nearly half of respondents reported that their faculty and staff cannot easily access reliable data. “ __ on my campus cannot easily access reliable data.”.

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Teaching students how to advocate for their beliefs, while maintaining respect, builds the foundation for ongoing, meaningful dialogue. Jenkins highlighted the importance of preparing faculty not only to respect students’ voices but also to model respectful dialogue when challenging conversations arise.

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Supporting Student Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To learn more about the history of CS and how it’s being used by others in Student Affairs, I recommend reading this blog post: Strengths-Based Teaching: The Role of CliftonStrengths for Postsecondary Students in Teaching Roles. I also worked with faculty to build custom workshops for their courses. Let’s connect!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Teacher Preparation Programs must implement culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain Black males into teaching. Dr. Erik M.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And I also think it's important to mention just higher education's overall goal in serving the community, and facilitating successful re-assimilation for these students to return as productive members of society. Online programs must exist in conjunction with offering this more emotional support and just facilitating a community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Jones got the opportunity to teach on the faculty at The Peoples Improv Theater and serve on adjunct faculties in the department of theater at Brooklyn College and in the department of theater and speech at City College, where he developed the “Theatre and Racism” course. “No I want them to become good global citizens.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., School counselors can facilitate this by having Black males take career assessments such as the O’Net Interest Profiler , and ensure they are taking rigorous coursework in preparation for postsecondary options such as a college/university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It also represents the present threat of violence as a consequence for Black students who fail to comply with the authority ascribed to college and university faculty. These recent examples only further demonstrate a lack of institutional concern for the safety of Black students. Dr. Charles H.F.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

The universitywide Consent Campaign teaches students how to center autonomy, joy, and pleasure of all those involved in their intimate situations (including sexual and non-sexual intimacies). If faculty and staff are not listed here, they are non-confidential. Alyse Campbell, LMSW, Associate Director of GBVP.

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