Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

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.” ” While it’s common for colleges and universities to have detailed executive transition plans, Parkland’s process is unusual.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Pierre Agostini, who has been a member of OSU’s physics faculty since 2005; Ferenc Krausz, who is affiliated with two German institutions; and Anne L’Huillier, of Lund University in Sweden, received the honor for developing new strategies to understand the rapid movements of electrons.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 21, 2023

In 1997 and 2005, NWACC's rates were thus automatically reduced, although left at levels that ensured the college still gained additional dollars annually. In other words, it wasn't a loss; it just wasn't as big a gain as it would have been had the millage stayed at its original rate.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Earning two-year community college degrees in health care or STEM fields can put young people on a solid course to better earnings in well-paid fields with high demand for workers in Massachusetts, but there are big gaps in those seeking these degrees between students from low-income and better-off households. Read more at Vox.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. Docking credits that growth in large part to the role Rize Education has played in allowing the college to add majors and recruit students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Controlled Digital Lending at the Internet Archive The Internet Archive began digitizing print books for online lending in 2005 and scans 4,300 books per day in 18 locations around the world, according to its website. “It would be a book burning on an unprecedented scale.” Every day, it lends approximately 70,000 books.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

My father died in 2005. I do not know why we make this something that only privileged people get to do when it’s not a particularly difficult thing to provide these opportunities to anyone, particularly in a school context. Writing that allows us to both think and feel is what sets us apart from the algorithms. Perhaps I can illustrate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Can a painting of an opera singer by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), a urinal posed as sculpture by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968), a photograph of nudists by Diane Arbus (American, 1923–1971), a Bwa culture plank mask, and a chaotic wrapped fiber sculpture by Judith Scott (American, 1943–2005) all be art?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’ve never heard (or read) David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to the 2005 graduates of Kenyon College, you really should. Less well-known people can knock it out of the park, and famous people can bomb. And great minds sometimes really deliver.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

2005 ) around what can or cannot be counted. Many institutions claim maintenance of rigor, curricular control or accreditation standards, but the true question at play is whether the institution embraces a transfer-receptive culture ( Taylor and Jain 2017 ).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

3 October · Episode 175 Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU's Partnership for Workforce Readiness 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Creating a Clear Pathway to Community College Using the Common App, CSCU created a legislature-driven, GPA-calibrated automated admission program that will be implemented at the state’s 17 technical schools and CSCU’s 17 community college campuses. Why having a “winning team” mentality is so important for higher ed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Astin’s Four Critical Years: Effects of College on Beliefs, Attitudes and Knowledge (1977) and its sequel What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited (1993), and Ernest T. Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Jerry Wallace – West Virginia University Potomac State College Jerry Wallace Jerry Wallace , president of Danville Community College in Virginia, is also moving to a new post. Wallace will take the helm as president of West Virginia University Potomac State College on Dec.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 19001985. Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us. America's Broken Promise: Bridging the Community College Achievement Gap. Excelsior College Press. Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Retirements Jennie Vaughan, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, retired in May, after more than 25 years at the school. Newman Dr. Timothy Alvarez, president of the Colorado Community College System’s Otero College, retired Aug. Montague, president of Volunteer State Community College, died Sept.

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