Faculty

focused on the use of the Implicit-Association Test bringing light to the implicit attitudes one possesses towards stigmatized behaviors (Swanson, Swanson, & Greenwald, 2001). Efforts need to be made to continue the discussion of mental health among faculty. This project was created to maintain a safe environment for students and to prevent situations, such as being exposed for their need of accommodations. Students should be given equal opportunity to succeed throughout their academic career…

matters are often based on bad reasoning and insufficient information leading to compromising the quality and productivity in education in terms of reducing faculty numbers. It was instead said that we “should pursue measures that reduce costs and protect our core, not unduly compromising the quality, production, and revenue generation to which faculty are central.” However, the previous statement is an example of using rhetoric by trying to persuade us to not cut teachers when they are truly…

should use facilitated focus groups to improve the academic experience as the overall effectiveness of a university’s academic programs depend on both the students and faculty make the most of it. This is so as both students and faculty depend on each other as students rely on faculty for the knowledge needed to succeed and faculty rely on the students’ success to ensure if their teaching was effective. As simple as this may seem, there are a few challenges in this dynamic which can hinder…

Student Success in the Classroom Community colleges have organized themselves around the theme of ease in entrance, exit, and reentry. Having made a considerable effort to recruit students and offer them valuable learning experiences, most community college stakeholders also want to keep students enrolled, at least until degree or program objectives have been fulfilled. It is a challenge for an institution built on the theme of easy access to limit easy exit (Cohen, Chapter 7 - Student…

objective is to assess the demographic variables that influence the perceptions of faculty members toward the organizational justice. In particular, the demographic variables include the occupation of the faculty members, rank, experience, and size. Various analyses are performed on the data, including descriptive and inferential analysis. Notably, the measures for occupation, rank, and the perceptions of faculty members are categorical variables that are measured at the ordinal level. These…

devise an evacuation stratagem for precautions, install an overhead speaker system, and dispense firearms to certain faculties and staff members. After the mass murder at Virginia Tech, which left thirty-two teachers and students dead, people have begun to question the safety of college students on campus. At the first shot, an email had been emitted to…

One such demand is that faculty should now be hired and fired based on criteria like race to maintain some minimum level of diversity, without racial bias against certain groups in the hiring process having to be proven to exist in the first place. This diverts critical thought and discussion from the merits of different professors and how they can further the university’s core values onto how to the college will achieve certain percentages of ethnic groups among faculty without having to fire…

geography. A study abroad course in Central America is being proposed. Mr. Shurlds – geography faculty at East Mississippi CC is a Willian Winter Scholar. Southwest Mississippi Community College offers only AA degree. They have 5 world geography sections offered every year. Both on-campus and online courses are offered with an annual enrollment of about 150 students in geography classes. Geography faculty wants to increase the course offerings in geography especially they want to offer GIS…

nursing has transitioned from the service sector to college and university campuses. Hence, it has resulted in a complex responsibility for nursing faculty. The development in science and technology, in healthcare, has greatly impacted the nursing education. There are many factors that affect the current changes in nursing education such as a great lack of faculty, societal rise in multi-culturalism, re-education in financial resources and transformation in providing patient care. Other factors…

decisions that are being made (Manning, 2013). The president does not deem himself the power and authority over all faculty and staff, in fact, he and every person are able to give their input and opinions during all meetings. This encourages lengthy discussions to ensure every voice is heard as well as to promote healthy conclusions made by the administrator. Since both faculty and administration work together to solve the problem, no rash decisions are made and clear solutions are created. …