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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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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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From president "designee" to president in three years

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The move was part of an executive transition plan that also involved promoting Lau to executive vice president of the two-year college and informally making her “president designee.” ” Lau and Ramage, both veteran administrators at the institution in Champaign, Ill., “I am actually not a very ambitious person.

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Around the world, more than 16 million grants have been awarded since 2003. Q: You mention that an administrator told you during your first weeks as an assistant professor that a federal grant would be more valuable to you than a foundation grant. That extra money was very important to my administrator.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ironically, a career shift out of the academy may also offer these administrators a more focused impact in their area of greatest scholarly and personal passion. She served as president of Kenyon College from 2003 to 2013. Georgia Nugent is president of Illinois Wesleyan University.

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

Survey modules include items that assess communication, follow-through, and whether faculty and administration operate within a framework of mutual trust. Faculty and administrators collaborated on a COACHE scorecard to track actions over time. Started out really on the survey and administration side of things.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Nationally representative data can address these issues and provide benchmarks that university administrators can use to understand how faculty work and life at their institution may compare in relation to peer institutions. The survey was last administered in fall 2003, with earlier administrations in 1987, 1992 and 1998.

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