Teaching and Learning Centers as Catalysts for Faculty Diversity Development
...Flaherty, C. (2014, May 30). A ‘growth’ field. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/30/some-teaching-and-learning-centers-have-closed-after-recession-field-growing-over Jaschik, S. (2016, September 26). Epidemic of racist incidents. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/26/campuses-see-flurry-racist-incidents-and-protests-against-racism. Schroeder,...
How to Encourage Faculty to Adopt Open Educational Resources
...Educational resources in U.S. higher education, 2017. Retrieved from http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2017.pdf Staben, C. (2019, February 13). A new way to motivate faculty adoption of OER. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2019/02/13/encourage-faculty-adoption-oer-share-savings-departments-and...
Freedom of Speech Issues: A Legal Primer for Academic Leaders
Today’s college campus is a laboratory for the US Constitution’s First Amendment provision declaring that government may not “abridge” a citizen’s individual rights with respect to five related freedoms: religion,...
Managing Student Complaints
...send the complaint to the diversity officer. Ask the student to talk to the faculty member. The best resolutions to complaints often come through discussion between the people directly involved,...
Understanding the Fisher Decision
...color. Create thoughtful search processes: There is considerable research suggesting that search committees tend to have a “cloning effect”—in other words, they tend to choose candidates who look and think...
Four Steps to Building Institutional Support for Blended Learning
...Wednesday, and a third on Friday. The challenge, of course, comes at exam time. An exam schedule that only takes into account the scheduled time of the class (like...
How to Talk Yourself out of a Job
...from further consideration. It is not uncommon for search committees to discover that a candidate who has all the right qualifications “on paper” acts so inappropriately that one begins to...
Combating Student Debt with Financial Education
...and are parceled into five- to 10-minute segments, allowing students to complete these programs at their own pace in a non–disruptive format. The real issue then isn’t time; it’s flexibility....
Spotlight on Campus Speech: Q&A with Tom McDaniel
...by untrue, mean-spirited, racist, or misogynist communications to others. This includes such comments about faculty and administrators, especially when class disruptions result. On-campus messages from campus computers can be regulated...
Overcoming the Pipeline Myth: Department Chairs as Transformative Diversity Leaders
...interview process. A White female chair of kinesiology at a public southwestern research university emphasized the need for search committees to familiarize themselves with community resources: By resources [I mean]...