No matter your discipline, no matter your career stage, no matter your classroom—in-person, HyFlex, or online—thousands of educators have flocked to the conference and found just what they were looking for: practical, evidence-based tools and practices to help them excel in the classroom. That’s not all they’ve found. Engaging with like-minded colleagues, they’ve discovered new […]

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If you’re at any stage of burnout in your own life, know that you are not alone. Whether you’re at stage one or stage nine or stage 12, it’s okay to take time for yourself, to prioritize your needs, and to put yourself first. Your mental health matters and YOU matter. In the Wellbeing Elixir […]

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It’s already the end of the semester! The shiny back-to-school dust has settled and we have all been rotating through our new COVID-complicated school routines. Most of the students and professors agree that it was better to be back on campus, even with the restrictions and quieter than usual hallways. For the most part, everyone […]

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For most of us, the fall 2020 semester required a major shift in how we do our job as faculty members. We had to come up with new ways to teach classes, conduct our research, and serve our institutions and professional organizations. Additionally, the need to create accessible and inclusive online or hybrid courses probably […]

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Faculty recruitment is important because it is the first step in the process of developing qualified and engaged faculty. Over-recruiting makes it challenging to fully engage faculty and under-recruiting makes it difficult to efficiently staff courses. Effectively recruiting faculty to teach in the online environment poses unique challenges, which can be addressed through careful planning. […]

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Faculty development and burnout pose challenges within departments and colleges of academic institutions. Constrained resources—asked to do more with less time, money, and personnel—contribute to faculty feeling overwhelmed (Gabriel, 2017) and make faculty development difficult (Watts & Robertson, 2011). World-wide changes in institutions of higher education demanding exceptional instructional quality and research quantity have made […]

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I am not going to lie…. I’m completely obsessed with email. For several years, email has been deemed the most preferred channel of professional communication (Tanase, 2018). Like many Americans, every morning I wake up, and the first thing I do is open my email. I’m not the only one, approximately 46% (and 66% of […]

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The area of Scholarship has been defined in a somewhat narrow sense.  This is reflected in an article by Plume and van Weijen (2014), where they noted “publish or perish,” or frequent publication as the more commonly recognized method scholars demonstrate academic talent. Since it is easy to measure, it is often used to support […]

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An initial look at a conference program can lead attendees to become (in the words of a former colleague) “paralyzed by the possibilities.” There are just so many sessions we’d like to attend that it’s hard to choose. At a recent conference, a new faculty member asked me for advice about negotiating the labyrinth. Here […]

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You’ve just returned from a Teaching Professor Conference or read of an innovative teaching strategy in a book you devoured. You desperately want to incorporate the innovations you’ve learned into your own courses, but at that exact moment, you feel your energy drain when you imagine hearing unsupportive administrators utter their stern objections “to keep things the way they are.” You pause to look around, seeing older colleagues who have more teaching years behind than ahead of them—“I tried that once . . . “—knowing that they never received the administrative nod for their innovations.

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