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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“In order for Latinx students to want to come to Hartnell College, stay and complete, they need to feel a sense of belonging and cultural validation, and we have to offer high-value programs that offer a meaningful return on investment,” says Gutierrez. All of the college’s student services are available in English and Spanish.

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Student engagement and sense of mattering in a large UG course

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Inspired by Felten and colleagues presentation, I turned to the vast literature on Mattering to identify ways to promote the students sense on mattering in my course as a way to enhance students engagement. This experience demonstrated that the size of a course should not prevent trying things out. I encourage you all to give it a go!

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The "In Between": What’s Needed to Improve Student Outcomes

Dr. Al Solano

These include: inquiry & action student success teams per meta-major (aka, academic & career community), pedagogy inquiry & action teams , and student services inquiry & action teams. Author, Rousing Minds to Life (1990) and You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned (2010).

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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. The programs must provide inclusive education opportunities for participants, such as access to classes with nondisabled students.

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Visual Documentation of the College Meltdown Needed

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer is looking for images to document the College Meltdown which began in 2010. The US Department of Higher Education posts hundreds of campus closings each year. Images of these closed schools can be used to document an important part of US higher education history.

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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These in-depth interviews were to reveal attitudes to resilience, the culture across the university and in the workplace, and to explore whether systemic change is required to foster greater resilience amongst students. Stefan, M (2010): ‘A CV of Failures’. References: Haushofer, J (2016): ‘CV of Failures’.

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Unpacking History to Understand the Future of Student Affairs Assessment

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Pasqua First Nation author, Margaret Kovach, who highlights Indigenous approaches to research and evaluation, emphasizing that “knowledge is neither acultural nor apolitical” (2010). Exploring a Culture of Assessment in Student Affairs at One Public HBCU (Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University). link] Dixon, K.