Career Advice 20240919

A new study aimed to identify the competencies college leaders need. Current college presidents emphasized trust building, resilience and communication skills.

Ensuring that individuals in a unit are successful while also maintaining its stature can impact chairs’ decisions in ways that contribute to bias, write Kim Avrama Blackwell, Marjolein van der Meulen and Lori Setton.

Offering options helps make them more affirming and meaningful, which ultimately increases student learning, writes Christine Harrington.

Math educator Sheila Tabanli offers three instructional strategies that instructors teaching the “most hated subject” can integrate into courses to create a community of learners focused on compassion and connection.

By focusing on it, students may better understand different perspectives on an issue, Scott Parker writes, but will they also lose sight of their own?