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The Need and Promise of an International Perspective in Higher Education Leadership
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Gerardo L. Blanco – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
This article is the first installment of a new column in "Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning" which will explore current gaps, challenges, and trends in global higher education, as well as their implications for college and university leaders. In this issue, the author argues for taking into account data about international higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Global Approach, Decision Making
Insights into Full-Time Nontenure-Track Faculty at Mid-Career and Beyond
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Alison K. Staudinger; Laura E. Sponsler – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2025
There is a need to reevaluate traditional career trajectories within higher education to accommodate the significant presence and important contributions of visitors, instructors, teaching assistants, adjuncts, and lecturers (VITAL) faculty particularly at the mid-career stage. The study, conducted at the University of Denver, where full-time…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Career Development, Teacher Role
Research-Based Approaches to Support and Retain Higher Education Staff
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Kevin R. McClure; Margaret W. Sallee – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2025
Higher education institutions rely on staff working in a variety of roles to perform their core functions, including custodians, librarians, food service workers, career counselors, and residence hall directors. Research within and beyond the field of higher education offers multiple approaches leaders can consider to improve their workplace…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Labor Turnover, Work Environment
Recent Evolution in Higher Education Program Offerings
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Louisa Hunkerstorm; Brian Prescott – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
In today's higher education landscape, there are numerous conflicting pressures that influence how the mix of academic programs institutions choose to offer will evolve. This article describes: (1) The need to understand better how institutions' program arrays are evolving over time in the face of a variety of student, workforce, competitive,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Decision Making, Trend Analysis
Scaling Inclusive Teaching: A National STEM Teaching Initiative Centering Identity, Power, and Privilege
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Susanna Calkins; Anna Conway; Tazin Daniels; Regina F. Frey; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel; Bennett Goldberg; Robin McC. Greenler; Lucas B. Hill; Sarah Chobot Hokanson; Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda; Tershia Pinder-Grover; Sara Armstrong; Diamond Buchanan; Diane Codding; Schnaude Dorizan; Noah Green; Ivan A. Hernandez; Lisa Himelman; Tim Immelman; Omari W. Keeles; Haley Lewis; SuYeong (Sophie) Shin; Veronica Womack; Sara E. Woods; Alessandra M. York – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The authors developed a free online course that centers learning about identity, power, positionality, and privilege to support inclusive teaching for STEM faculty and future faculty. Instructors across all institution types, including community college and 2-year, regional and comprehensive, and public and private research universities, utilized…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Fostering Equitable Transformation: Leading Structural and Cultural Change for Curricular Scaffolding
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Jeffrey M. Osborn; Jillian L. Kinzie; Kerry K. Karukstis; Mitchell R. Malachowski; Elizabeth L. Ambos – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The intentional scaffolding of research practices and experiences across a 4-year curriculum provides a developmental and sustainable model to guide students to greater independence and ownership of their learning and offers a supportive framework for advancing equity of opportunity and outcomes. Curricular transformation can be a daunting…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Administrators, Curriculum Development
Realizing the Promise of Professional Learning for Teaching, Equity, and Change
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Bret Eynon; Jonathan Iuzzini; H. Ray Keith; Eric Loepp; Nicole Weber – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Recent research shows that professional learning is essential "equity infrastructure," the key to engaging front-line educators in the action-oriented partnerships needed to implement equity-focused practices with quality and at scale. The new, 2023 report examines professional learning at community colleges and Minority Serving…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Equal Education, Partnerships in Education
Community Colleges and the Public Good: Creating Communities
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Rufus Glasper – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
As educators reconsider higher education's public good mission, community colleges face a monumental task. These colleges still serve a student population that includes many low-income, traditionally underrepresented, first-generation college students with family and job responsibilities that demand their attention. For community colleges, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sense of Community, Student Experience, School Culture