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Educated Nation - an independent, intelligent and insightful look at higher education.
Wondering what other colleges are up to? I ran across this website which has some interesting articles that relate to our education system. Noteworthy articles include August 5 titled 'How to Lan...
Faculty Professional Development
This series of articles is from the Faculty Focus website. One article (link below) from August 5 - Take Control: Planning Your Professional Development, provides some very useful templates that wi...
It's Your Fault - Managing Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Are you anticipating tenure or promotion within your organization? This article is a 'tough love' appraisal of internal attitudes that can derail that process. Self examination is never easy, but...
Great Colleges Reap the Benefits of Great Workplace Culture
Great academic workplaces are filled with people who believe that their jobs are important to the college, that the institution is important to the community, and that the college gives them the fr...
Great Colleges Reap the Benefits of Great Workplace Culture
Great academic workplaces are filled with people who believe that their jobs are important to the college, that the institution is important to the community, and that the college gives them the fr...
Community College Students Perform Worse Online than Face to Face
This article is based on a new study released by the Community College Research Center at the Teachers College at Columbia University. The study is based on enrollment history of 51,000 community-...
Many studies have shown that adjuncts can feel isolated due to the nature of their job being part time and in different locations. The Linked in website has many groups that are available for adj...
Starting Strong: Your First Days on Campus
As an adjunct, I work at multiple colleges and multiple locations. This article offers advice on how to make a strong start when you begin working for a new institution.
Do you have any ad...
Redefining Community College Success
Talk continues in Washington on how to measure student success within community colleges. There is agreement about reporting of completion rates and student learning outcomes (SLO's) but strong di...
Confronting Contingency: Inequities Between Faculty?
A thought provoking article that looks at the current state of contingent faculty from Association of American Colleges website. It offers some thoughts about inequities in the faculty class syste...