The new face of full-time faculty
Researchers are taking a closer look at the expanding roles that full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members play in higher education. These kinds of educators are becoming increasingly relied upon by the colleges and universities that employ them, Peter Schmidt reports in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Schmidt sat down with one of the researchers who has […]
A guerilla teacher builds a community of faculty
“I used to do a great deal of guerilla teaching,” says Gina Foster, the director of the Teaching and Learning Commons at Lehman College in New York. Foster would arrive the day a class would begin, uncertain of what to expect from her students and the course she was teaching. Despite the challenges, these experiences […]
ACUE Photos: Course Orientation at CU Denver
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Highlights from ACE’s 99th Annual Meeting
Connecting With Students is Key for This CUNY Professor
There are many techniques that college educators should know about as part of their instructional practices. But for Joseph Abbondandolo, if he isn’t able to connect with his students, he says the rest of his teaching won’t matter. “It’s all about the relationships,” said Abbondandolo. “I tell my students that I don’t remmebr a whole lot about […]
AASCU 2017 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting
Higher education leaders and ACUE head to Baltimore this week for the American Association of State and College Universities’ 2017 Academic Affairs Summer Meeting. Attending? Join us as we discuss why curricular coherence is only as effective as professors’ ability to communicate it. Below are three ways to say hello and join the conversation: Tour ACUE’s […]
For Immediate Release July 20, 2015 ACUE Welcomes Ted Mitchell as the American Council on Education’s Next President (New York, NY) Please credit the following statement to James Merman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center:
Webinar Recap: AEI’s State of Teaching in Higher Ed
“Quality is the path to impact, equity, integrity.”—Jonathan Gyurko On October 27, 2020, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted a webinar featuring insights on the state of teaching in higher education from Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching […]
In Puerto Rico, ACUE and Universidad Central del Caribe Celebrate Health-sciences Faculty
When Waleska Crespo Rivera was appointed president of the Universidad Central del Caribe in 2018, she sought to focus on promoting the quality of UCC’s educational programs. As UCC’s first private medical school to be incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, UCC has evolved into a health-sciences university with fully accredited […]
