faculty Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/faculty/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:25:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png faculty Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/faculty/ 32 32 Effective Strategies for Combating Faculty Burnout https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/05/18/effective-strategies-for-combating-faculty-burnout/ Thu, 18 May 2023 19:27:14 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17939 In 2023, with pandemic mandates and lockdowns long gone, faculty burnout remains at an all-time high. CUPA-HR data point to growing workplace dissatisfaction in higher education, and a new Inside Higher Ed analysis finds that close to half of presidents indicate they are very aware of their faculty and staff’s mental health. Burnout is a general term, with a variety of ...

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]]> Let’s Remake Racially Unsafe STEM Educational Spaces https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/02/11/lets-remake-racially-unsafe-stem-educational-spaces/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:07:15 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17397 By Ebony O. McGee In 2012, soon after I started my tenure-track job at Vanderbilt University, I became laser focused on understanding and eventually changing one shocking statistic: only 2.5 percent of all tenured or tenure-track engineering professors at U.S. institutions of higher education were Black professors. Eight years later, after some well-funded and well-intentioned programs directly targeting the racial diversification ...

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]]> Supporting Students Through Faculty Professional Development https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/10/19/supporting-students-faculty-professional-development/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:35:01 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17142 A conversation with Broward College’s Marielena DeSanctis. Originally posted on the Association of College and University Educators’ The “Q” blog. Research published in June 2020 found that Broward College students were more likely to complete and pass their courses, with Black and Pell-eligible students achieving outcomes comparable with their peers, when taught by faculty who completed ACUE’s course in research-based effective teaching ...

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]]> Practical Alternatives to Tenure: Lessons Learned for Best Practice https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/07/30/practical-alternatives-tenure-lessons-learned-best-practice/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:41:17 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16830 By April Mason and Jean Wyld This post is the sixth in a series from the Association of Chief Academic Officers. As chief academic officers, we are all familiar with the real and perceived concerns about traditional tenure-track faculty appointments. At many of our institutions, these concerns are enhanced by constraints in funding and tenure quotas that limit our ability to make tenure-track ...

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]]> Teaching for Social Solidarity: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in a Time of COVID-19 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/06/10/teaching-social-solidarity-diversity-equity-inclusion-time-covid-19/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:00:37 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16755 By Quincy A. Bevely, Sherri Lind Hughes, and Nicholas V. Longo Teaching in this time of uncertainty in response to COVID-19 has brought about many changes in how we engage with one another. For most of higher education, this has meant an abrupt mid-semester shift to online learning and the possibility of that continuing into the fall. Our experience teaching through ...

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]]> Shared Leadership As a Strategy for Leading in a Time of Crisis and Beyond https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/06/05/shared-leadership-strategy-leading-time-crisis-beyond/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:14:36 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16745 By Susan Elrod and Judith A. Ramaley Higher education institutions have faced upheaval as they have found ways to respond to the urgent and rapidly changing situation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. It is clear that this pandemic will require us to make changes that we may have never thought possible or only talked about as ideal. Leaders need to significantly speed ...

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]]> The Parallels of Parenting and Moving Towards Equity https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/parallels-parenting-moving-towards-equity/ Wed, 20 May 2020 10:00:57 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16407 By Cecilia Rios-Aguilar The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these positions ...

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]]> Inclusive Leadership https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/inclusive-leadership/ Wed, 20 May 2020 09:00:42 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16425 By Noelle Witherspoon Arnold The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these ...

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]]> Toward an Inclusive Classroom Environment https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/toward-inclusive-classroom-environment/ Wed, 20 May 2020 08:45:22 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16409 By Stephanie L. Sanders The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these ...

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]]> What Works: Creating Diverse and Inclusive Graduate Campuses https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/works-creating-diverse-inclusive-graduate-campuses/ Wed, 20 May 2020 08:30:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16419 By Karen P. DePauw The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these ...

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]]> Setting a Higher Bar for Multicultural Inclusion in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/setting-higher-bar/ Wed, 20 May 2020 08:15:27 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16434 By Maria Madison The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these positions ...

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]]> Who Are These Diversity Officers? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/05/20/who-are-these-diversity-officers/ Wed, 20 May 2020 08:00:17 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16663 By Joana Dos Santos The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan interviewed a number of academic diversity officers (ADOs) to learn more about how they view their role. Results from this study were published last fall. In this new blog series, ADOs and other senior leaders discuss the role, the challenges ADOs face, and the opportunities these ...

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