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Academic Affairs

UB Op-Ed: The value of community college partnerships

One of the absolutes of higher education is that no two students are alike, so there are no two identical paths to a degree. As educators, we know the challenges of getting our students to a degree won’t be easily solved without innovative ideas that give community college students more options to achieve their goals.

Centralizing faculty support staffing at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

When the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee added a biomedical department to the six departments already under its umbrella in 2016, administrators realized that a faculty support staff decentralized by department would no longer suffice.

We still need to empower women in STEM

Nada Anid, vice president for strategic communications and external affairs at the New York Institute of Technology, says women are a great, untapped resource for the science and technology industries—we […]

Remote internships: Planning for and supporting students

Campus administrators who have coordinated successful virtual internships suggest these six steps for making them work.

Faculty hiring: 4 trends to follow

The seemingly routine process of hiring faculty also presents campus leaders with ample opportunities for innovation. As higher ed institutions strive to take full advantage of the talents brought by incoming faculty, some variations to long-standing practices are taking root. Here are four emerging and continuing hiring trends worth following throughout 2019.