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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

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Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. Research shows grades don’t help learning and actually distract from other feedback/assessment.” I have felt like a failure some of the time.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

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While retention rates may point to the success or failure of a program or intervention, they do not provide the rich, qualitative insights needed to understand why students leave or stay. Faculty and staff should be encouraged to engage with students in meaningful ways that extend past classroom interactions.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

While retention rates may point to the success or failure of a program or intervention, they do not provide the rich, qualitative insights needed to understand why students leave or stay. Faculty and staff should be encouraged to engage with students in meaningful ways that extend past classroom interactions.

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Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career

Faculty Focus

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development.

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Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career

Faculty Focus

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development.