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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prison education in the rearview mirror Prison education programs have long been in the crossfire of fierce clashes between those viewing prisons as proper punishment to promote a safe and just society and those seeing prisons as democracy’s hope for rehabilitation and restorative justice. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The largest gain in retention rates over the last decade was in community colleges — increasing 3.7 for incoming students who began fall 2013 to 55% for those who began fall 2022. It’s really important to find benchmarks that can help inform efforts to improve at individual colleges,” Shapiro said.

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. Kahu of Massey University in New Zealand on framing student engagement, which asserts that “lifeload” is a critical factor. What is lifeload?

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Institutional Accreditation is in Dire Need of Change: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 144 With Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton And Guest Ralph Wolff

The Change Leader, Inc.

It also developed a successful faculty fellows program in Kentucky to build faculty advocates for connecting to workforce needs. Previously, Wolff served as president of the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) from 1996-2013.

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