Thank you. There are a lot of thanks that I want to begin with, starting with the Faculty Resource Network for inviting me here and enabling me to make this presentation. Thanks also to Dr. Hogan for all that she…
This session focused on the instructional and professional strategies used to inform and improve remote learning that were implemented from March 2020 through May 2021, across a year and a half of remote teaching. The faculty presenters are from four…
Introduction There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted us as professors. Many of us have experienced frustration, stress, and even heavier workloads. What we are experiencing or have experienced is called pandemic burnout syndrome. According to the…
Introduction After more than a year of enduring numerous challenges in the United States resulting from the tragic COVID pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel is finally becoming more vivid as citizens are embarking upon the much-anticipated…
Background COVID-19 caused disruptions in communal, engaged learning, constraining professors who had been implementing community engagement initiatives that, for example, involved students helping disadvantaged people in-person. However, during a pandemic and beyond, interventions by professors can leverage the diverse perspectives…
The following conference proceeding discusses how successes from teaching fully online during the COVID-19 pandemic need to be utilized as professors return to the classroom. The presenters discussed how instructors can use the experiences gained during the pandemic to create…
The 2021 National Symposium of the Faculty Resource Network focuses on a timely and important challenge: Redesigning Higher Education after COVID-19. For the opening panel, the speakers have been asked to comment on “Our Shifted Roles as Change Agents in…
The content of this article stems from a 21-month grant from the Center for Educational Opportunity, at Albany State University, supported by the Koch Foundation, entitled, Identifying Strategies from Education-Related Activities to Provide Improved Academic Access for LGBTQIAP Students of Color. The…
Purpose of the Presentation This interactive presentation focused on the dilemma of 20th century instruction for 21st century students. Through comparisons of both learning styles and teaching methods, we acknowledged that educational methods have changed over time. The professoriate needs…
The history of social movements at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (UPR-RP) reflects the students’ interest in using disruptive tactics, such as protests and class stoppages, and non-disruptive tactics, such as hunger strikes, to enact social, political, environmental,…
During the fall semester of 2009, a developmental writing student, who had previously been charged with academic dishonesty, submitted a second assignment in which he had to demonstrate that he understood how to write complete sentences. Although grammatically correct, the…
What is I-House? The Morehouse College W.E.B. Du Bois International House (I-House) opened in the fall semester of 2007 as a model unit for residential life. To have a broader impact on education, I-House takes an integrated approach to internationalizing…
Introduction The rise in campus shootings has changed the belief that college and university campuses provide a safe environment for students. Recent shootings, ending in fatalities such as the ones at Delaware State University and Virginia Tech, have shaken students…
Introduction Students’ beliefs and opinions about disaster situations, formed as a result of their personal experiences and from recent seminal events such as the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, are often their initial starting points when they begin…
The second semester of the intermediate English course which I teach uses an interdisciplinary approach. One of the thematic units I use for the course is ethics. As Charles Taylor pointed out in Sources of the Self, our identity is tied…
The development of information literacy has become an essential curricular goal in undergraduate education regardless of major or instructional delivery format. This article discusses a case study where a college librarian and a faculty member, in the speech pathology and…
Colleges and universities employ a variety of means to afford academic advising to their students, including the use of faculty serving as preceptors and/or a Director and advising staff emanating from a Center of Academic Advising, among others. Whether the…
At a time when colleges are being forced to substantially decrease their budgets, how can we continue to promote and embrace the diverse classroom as an educational opportunity? Introduction and Project Summary Racial diversity is the buzz word within predominately…
We set out to investigate empirically whether and how the instructional roles of faculty are changing, whether and how students’ instructional needs are changing, if these changes were appropriately aligned to support learning, and if there were differences between students…
The Problem Many studies in recent years have noted that the average time to degree for college students nationwide has been steadily increasing. Instead of the traditional four years that most college degrees were originally designed for, it has become…