{"id":544,"date":"2025-11-10T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/?p=544"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:13:19","slug":"this-week-in-the-faculty-hub-preparing-for-the-next-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/2025\/11\/10\/this-week-in-the-faculty-hub-preparing-for-the-next-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the Faculty Hub: Preparing for the Next Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Blackboard Learn reaching its end of life in just over a year, conversations are underway across campus about what\u2019s next\u2014what platform we\u2019ll move to, how we\u2019ll support it, and how we, as an institution, can best take advantage of the transition. I have a long history with Blackboard, having started my career here providing direct technical support for it, so this moment feels both familiar and full of possibility.<\/p>\n<p>While challenges certainly lie ahead, I\u2019m convinced that our digital learning environment is about to take a major step forward. The Faculty Hub won\u2019t be making the final decision on which LMS we move to, but we\u2019ll be deeply involved in helping faculty make the most of it once it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, my colleague, Ryan Cales, and I would love to hear from you\u2014your thoughts, anxieties, hopes, or excitement, whatever\u2019s on your mind as we prepare for this next chapter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uronline.net\/emailviewonwebpage.aspx?erid=b0696ba4-38d6-4053-9ad1-d88844c9310d&amp;trid=b0696ba4-38d6-4053-9ad1-d88844c9310d\">Keep reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Blackboard Learn reaching its end of life in just over a year, conversations are underway across campus about what\u2019s next\u2014what platform we\u2019ll move to, how we\u2019ll support it, and how we, as an institution, can best take advantage of the transition. I have a long history with Blackboard, having started my career here providing <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/2025\/11\/10\/this-week-in-the-faculty-hub-preparing-for-the-next-chapter\/\">Continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/facultyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}