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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

Background and Relevance Open enrollment policies are a defining characteristic of community colleges. Background and Relevance Open enrollment policies are a defining characteristic of community colleges. 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003). 2021; Close et al.,

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Community College: The Right Path and the Right Foot

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges have the ability to not only put students on the right path, but most importantly, ensure that students begin on the right foot. That right foot has so many implications, the first of which is the financial impact of attending a community college as the first step toward a bachelor ’ s degree.

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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. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Lai goes through the grant-writing process, from shaping one’s research agenda to learning about potential funders (public and private) and shares her own experiences. What leads researchers to limit their options? Around the world, more than 16 million grants have been awarded since 2003. And there truly are many options.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Decatur, the only scientist in the group, indicated that moving to the American Museum of Natural History would enable him to pursue a personal mission to make scientific discoveries and research available to all. She served as president of Kenyon College from 2003 to 2013.

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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.

He oversees the initiatives research and institutional collaborations. The discussion highlights how faculty data is being applied on campuses to clarify priorities, improve communication, and guide change management efforts. They require, they’re requiring far more hands-on, more help, more learning study skills, et cetera.

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