Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Carol Ann Tomlinson taught in public schools for 21 years and was later a faculty member at the University of Virginia for 30 years. Her two lives as an educator have enabled her to develop, pilot, research, refine, and share a model for differentiating instruction in todays diverse classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

California’s community colleges are lacking in full-time faculty, according to a recent report from California’s state auditor. The state-ordered audit looked at hiring and state funds spending practices for full-time faculty at four community college districts: Foothill-De Anza, Kern, Los Rios and San Diego.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State’s Teaching Assistant Project (TAP) – created by its School of Graduate Studies – includes features aimed at providing development of instructional skills, fostering a community of learners and coaches, and ensuring development of a teaching philosophy that fully embraces inclusion and diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As associate director of the university’s Center for Advancement of Teaching, Rahming oversees FSU’s Learning Assistant Program, which has yielded impressive results in helping students excel in some of the school’s high-enrollment, lower-division courses that provide the foundation for learning in late courses. The concept is quite simple.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Meridith Randall GWC Academic Senate President Damien Jordan, an associate professor of counseling, says Randall built trust among the faculty while serving as vice president of instruction, which readily translated when she became interim president. Randall says faculty training in online teaching is a priority this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Some faculty in Texas may not be expected to demonstrate proficiency in knowledge transfer. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Some faculty speak to this in their philosophy statements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dr. Roberto Rubalcaba, an associate professor at San Diego City College who teaches gateway math courses, was unsurprised by the findings. He tries to avoid this in his own teaching. “I The study also suggests a policy shift: a move away from assessing, sorting, and tracking students and towards supporting faculty development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I would describe faculty as on a spectrum between sanguine and despairing,” says Dr. Joseph F. Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). We need to teach our students the places we’re likely to see bias in a particular discipline,” says Scott. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They also threaten promotions and tenure pursuits by potentially punishing faculty for not following the state’s definitions of DEI, the suit alleges. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner said. I’m a professor of chemistry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. The creation of this Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

After a student complained, L ó pez Prater was told that she would not be teaching a course in the spring semester. Instruction cannot proceed in the atmosphere of fear that would be produced were a teacher to become subject to administrative sanction based upon the idiosyncratic reaction of one or more students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Teaching has always been a passion for Dr. Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. I knew I wanted to be in a space where both teaching was valued but also research was valued.” I’m gifted in teaching, mentoring, and encouraging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Pawan Dhingra first arrived on campus as a faculty member more than five years ago, conversations around wanting AAPI content were already being had, he says. Building the ranks One of the biggest hurdles hindering the creation of an AAPI studies major at Amherst had been not having enough faculty to teach courses. He joined in.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

LSUE has also connected agriculture with technology through a free six-month program that teaches students how to use drone technology to supervise plant growth and wellness. “We What sets this program apart is the focus on and investment in faculty.” Success rates have grown from 40 to 60% on average.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

Martinez Dr. Jingjing Liu received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her study, titled Faculty Matter: A Case Study of Rural Community College Faculty Involvement in Vertical Transfer. Dr. Liu is a graduate of William & Mary. Reading Area Community College (Pennsylvania), St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the context of education, particularly in mathematics, the significance of effective teaching cannot be overstated. Research consistently shows that teacher certification, subject matter knowledge, and teaching experience significantly correlate with higher student achievement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

Jones cultivated a promising profession as an actor and performing arts teacher at The City College of New York, where he found himself instructing theater students with whom he participated in creative projects. Geovonday Jones The tragedies stayed with the now 39-year-old, who started a family and career in the years since.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He serves as co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. David Fuentes Fuentes is associate dean in the College of Education at William Paterson University, where he began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of teacher education in 2012.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

With more than a decade of K-12 teaching experience, she has previously been vice president of academic affairs, dean of the School of Education, department chair, and professor at Indian River State College. Cronin holds a doctorate in education with an emphasis on curriculum and instruction from the University of Sarasota; an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Everrett A. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

Instead of receiving tailored educational plans and specialized instruction, Black students with disabilities were often placed in segregated special education classes or even excluded from school altogether.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

According to the report, the most common post-baccalaureate microcredential programs at colleges and universities are in the fields of teaching, data science and analytics, interdisciplinary programs, management, psychology, and health care.

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Dr. Erika D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As the disagreement escalated – which students (who can be heard in the video of Leila’s arrest) – suggested was initiated by the professor, Leila was instructed to apologize or leave the classroom. Dr. Charles H.F.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

Frank Wu is always extremely energizing,” said Ann Matsuuchi, an instructional technology librarian and professor at LaGuardia Community College. It’s not enough to just have diversity in terms of faculty, or students, or classes; the classes themselves have to continuously question how we are teaching and what the student experience is.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 3, 2023

More important, it appears, is the amount of instruction time and teacher quality. Dr. Erik Craft is a faculty member at the University of Richmond where he teaches Principles of Microeconomics courses focused on inequality and economic mobility. Craft can be reached at ecraft@richmond.edu.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

At Black and Belonging, Gray co-constructs initiatives with students that show the world how to affirm them and show their teachers how to teach them. He is also the chief executive officer of Black and Belonging, a networked community of young thinkers designing cultural experiences that create a more welcoming society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

After completing his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in 2016, Henry joined the faculty at the University of Arizona, where his understanding of race in America was enriched by exposure to border state dynamics and the intersection of Black, Indigenous, and Mexican communities. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Years later, as higher education faculty in gifted and talented education, school counseling, mental health, and college and career readiness, we have the same and more concerns. Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant. Years later, our experiences still haunt us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling. Faculty from the College of Engineering and College of Sciences play an essential role. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” When she completed her Ph.D.,

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Believe in Students

MAY 7, 2024

I loved teaching, but I didn’t love being a teacher. I soon found it impossible to use the pedagogical practices I knew were best for student learning when it meant reading and responding to 120 journals every week, or creating four different lesson plans a day to provide differentiated instruction. Those who can’t, teach.

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