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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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DREAM Conference Marks Milestone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9% noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says.

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Stones, Glass Houses and China

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ever since the USA-Patriot Act and its successor, the Freedom Act, the National Security Administration continues to monitor electric communications almost indiscriminately. In short, since 2001, civil liberties and national security on wiretapping are out of balance with no correction in sight. Don’t hold your breath.

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To understand Adrian College today, it helps to look back to 2005, when Docking became president of an institution that he described as struggling and rudderless at that time. Federal data show Adrian enrolled nearly 1,200 students in 2001, but that number had dwindled to fewer than 1,000 by the time Docking arrived.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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A partisan tug-of-war over the University of North Carolina

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We’ve seen massive turnover at the highest levels, at Chapel Hill but also at the system level, and it was basically all for political reasons,” said Fulton, who also sat on the Chapel Hill Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2009.