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Article The Shrinking of Higher Ed.pdfA must read from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Nearly 1.3 million students have disappeared from American colleges during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising alarms that the enrollment emergency projected to arrive a few years from now is already here.
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Faculty Focused Articles
A ‘Forceful Voice’ for Community Colleges
Jill Biden, the first lady, returned to the classroom this fall as a community college professor. Community college leaders see the move as emblematic of a new national moment for their institutions. (2021, September 21).Add Trauma Glasses to Your Teacher Toolkit
If you thought the slew of challenges was coming to an end, think again. Alana Sejdic, MEd., (2022, July 25). Faculty FocusAdministrators Are Not the Enemy
Faculty contempt for non-faculty employees is unjustified and destructive. (2021, October 29).Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Kishimoto, K. (2018). Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21(4), 540-554.
ASU Prep Digital Teams Up With Google Public Sector to Develop Streaming Educational Curriculum With Universal Access. This new platform invites students to solve challenges by immersing themselves in interactive settings made possible by technology. For example, students can watch geologic formations emerge through simulations rather than reading about it in a textbook. Students can also explore human organs in 3D or examine a plastic mannequin. This brings topics like erosion, hydrolysis, and human anatomy to life. July 13, 2022, Business Wire.
Assignments with Significance. Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. Shaw, P. and Rasmussen, A. (2022, October 12). Faculty Focus.
Bridging the Gap Between DEI and Global Learning Outcomes. Educators can use intercultural learning tools to advance both concepts. Fundamentally, both of those activities are about understanding the self in relationship to the other. We cannot advance one effectively without also working to advance the other. Doss Bowman, K. (2022, August 3). NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Cameras On or Off? It Depends! What We’ve Learned from Students about Teaching and Learning on Zoom. Trust, T., Goodman, L. (2022, September 12). Faculty Focus.
Culturally Responsive Ways to Teach the History of Thanksgiving. Richardson, J. (2022, November 4), Edutopia.
Included within is a link to Native Land Digital featuring a digital map and Territory Acknowledgement guide. Explore the display of Indigenous territories (official and unofficial) worldwide and learn more about the complex history of the land and each nation, language, or treaty associated with it.Curriculum Redesign for Equity & Social Justice By Dirk Van Damme & reviewed by the Center for Curriculum Independent Equity Board. April 2022. Check this out for ideas on equity in your classroom/course[s]
Emerging from the Pandemic: Reimagining Higher Education. The impact of the pandemic on higher education cannot be understated. While campuses reopened their doors for in-person learning this past year, the environment has not been stable, with students and faculty alike working to find their footing and pave their path forward to prepare for a post pandemic world.
Everyone Wants to Be a Hispanic-Serving Institution: The number of HSIs has exploded. But are all those colleges helping their Hispanic students? December 3, 2021 from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Everything About How We Evaluate Teaching Needs a Makeover: For a true culture shift to take place about teaching, colleges need to fix more than just the peer-review process. June 8, 2022 from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Fall Enrollment Drops Bring Fresh Worries
Enrollment rates at community colleges continue to plummet across the country as administrators seek solutions to stanch the outward flow of students. 2021, October 25).How Not to Handle Student Failure. The firing of an NYU professor prompts one of his former students to reflect on her own teaching. Even if you have experienced some version of academic trauma, you do not need to “haze it forward” to your own students. You can choose to break the cycle. Bernsten, L. (2022, October 13). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
How to give your students better feedback with technology. Fiock, H. and Garcia, H. (2022, September 19). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
HBCU’s Augment HyFlex Format Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Elshabokshy, F. and Hill, K. (2022, October 10). Faculty Focus.
How to Become a Better Teacher
Find insights to improve teaching and learning across your campus. (2021, November 11).How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging
Advice guide to making your teaching more engaging. (2022, March). Chronicle of Higher Education.Leading from the Middle. Insight and Advice for Department Chairs. The Chronicle's Strategic-Leadership Program for Department Chair. Denver, C. and Justice, G. 2023. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Meet Them Where They Are: Furthering Your Own Cultural Humility and Responsive Teaching. Wiseman, M. (2021, March 23). Faculty Focus
Mission Critical: The Role of Community Colleges in Meeting Students’ Basic Needs. CCCSE. 2022 National Report
Report on Students in Need Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) Data Results. Trottier, T. (2022, January).
Students Need Mentors, and More Help in Making Those Connections. Nine strategies and tactics for ensuring more students desire a mentor and expanding opportunities for connection. (2021, October 28).
Student perspectives: Retaining dual-enrolled students. This article addresses some of the challenges of retaining dual-enrolled students beyond their graduation from high school. Community College Daily American Association of Community Colleges. (2023, January 3).
Teaching: Is It Time to Redefine Class Participation? McMurtrie, B. (2022, September 8). Chronicle of Higher Education.
Teaching: One Great Tip for First-Time Teachers: Supiano, B. (2022, June 23). Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher
Despite decades of evidence, good teaching is still considered more art than science. That’s hurting faculty and students alike. (2021, October 20).The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester Opportunity by Maryellen Weimer, PhD
The New Undergraduate Experience Draft 3.2 Report and Recommendations (2021, October 6).
The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks. The great critic believed joy and learning were inextricable. Savonick, D. (2021). The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Question of Cold Calling: Does the practice help students learn or just make them anxious? It all depends. Supinao, B. (2022. September 12). The Chronicle of Higher Education. Attending a class where discussion is always dominated by the same handful of confident students can be annoying. It’s not great for learning, either: Participation is a form of practice, and hearing from a broad selection of classmates enhances everyone’s education. Professors who use these techniques aim for an interactive classroom. Often, they are trying to hold students accountable, support an inclusive classroom, or both. However, consider the equity in 'cold calling'. This can be a distraction for learners. I recommend also reading Teaching: Is It Time to Redefine Class Participation?
The Science of Learning Psychology teachers understand how students' minds work. Find out how to use what they know to design more effective lessons and classroom practices. (2021, September 29).
The Shrinking of Higher Education. In the past, colleges grew their way out of enrollment crises. This time looks different. Fischer, K. (2022, August 12). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Value of Social Annotation for Teaching & Learning: Promoting Comprehension, Collaboration and Critical Thinking With Hypothesis. 2022, October.
Transforming Higher Education - Multidimensional Evaluation of Teaching The overarching goal of this project is to advance educational practices by creating, aligning and sustaining effective evaluation strategies that promote the use of evidence-based instructional strategies.
U.S. Department of Education: Protecting Student Privacy Training on Family Education Rights and Education Act. FERPA.
White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible backpack. McIntosh, P. (1989, July/August). Peach and Freedom.
What Does it Mean When Students Can't Pass Your Course? You have to have the humility to say, 'I could be part of the problem. Supiano, B. (2022, October 6). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Who We Are Project. By Jeffery Robinson. The organization is an outgrowth of a talk that Robinson has been giving for the past 10 years on the history of anti-Black racism and white supremacy in the United States. This talk forms the basis of the feature-length documentary film, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. View the trailer below.
Why Students Hate Group Projects (and How to Change That). Too many faculty members assign ambitious team projects and then leave the students to their own devices. James M. Lang. (2022, June 17). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Why the Science of Teaching Is Often Ignored: There’s a whole literature on what works. But it’s not making its way into the classroom. Beth McMurtie. (2022, January 3). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Faculty Focused Podcasts
Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons. Any time we give students the opportunity to not just analyze the world as it is, but use their knowledge to grapple with how the world ought to be, we explicitly permit them to not just be problem solvers, but to embrace their identity as problem finders. Cult of Pedagogy. (2022, July 24).
What We Now Know About Campus Space and Student Success. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scott Carlson. (2021, December 1). [26 minutes]
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Faculty Focused Videos
Got Netflix? Consider watching Jeffery Robinson's documentary on racism in America entitled: Who We Are. This does an excellent job breaking down the history of how racism came to be and ideas for how to move forward.
