Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

” Just 42 percent chose the other option: “A four-year college education is worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more income over their lifetime.” It is declining and at this point is more negative than positive. ” Those numbers have reversed themselves over the last decade.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. What is going on?

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Background Higher education faculty are expected to assess their teaching practices to better meet the needs of college students, including students from underrepresented populations. This is even more important as colleges explore how to make education more accessible and equitable. 2019; Lin et al.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

A recent study found that community college students earn degrees quicker and increase their earnings if they get extra help in credit-bearing courses rather than taking remedial courses. Douglas, director of social science research and lecturer in sociology at Trinity College, said in a news release from Trinity Tuesday.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2024

Student optimism toward higher education shines through the latest retention report from The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. First-year persistence and retention are strong early indicators for students staying enrolled throughout their program of study and eventually completing college,” Shapiro noted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Students, instructors, and researchers depend on these resources–losing them can be quite traumatic, and people become understandably angry about these losses. 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.3] 2013, section 3.7] modified from NISO 39.7-2013,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

A fiscal impact statement said the cost to colleges was “indeterminate,” but it would likely increase the overall costs to students for campus housing. ” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. “Everyone knows education is the ticket to independence and success.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). He is co-editor of The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America’s Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning (2011). He “is the author of The C.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

” Why eating disorders emerge during college: College has long been considered a risky time for students with or at risk of developing eating disorders, for a variety of developmental, environmental and social factors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Kahu described it in one 2013 paper as “the sum of all the pressures a student has in their life,” including college but also employment, finances, family needs and health, among other dynamics.) What is lifeload? instead of 10 a.m.,” ” wrote a student from Louisiana State University.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In survey after survey of employers, things like critical thinking skills, ability to communicate through writing, creative thinking, and ability to integrate ideas/information across different contexts – all things I learned in pursuit of my English degrees – are rated as very important.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Beginnings of Co-Curricular Research (1950s): By 1950, collecting questionnaire data on student activities and feedback was under way at the secondary level (Tompkins, 1950). By the mid-1950s, researchers began exploring other relationships with co-curricular participation, such as social status (Gordon, 1957).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 12, 2019

Each new intake of tutors brings with them a new set of experiences and different goals, which can often take us all into new areas of research. The act of applying for fellowship, working within our small community, helps us all to enhance our skills with the support of our group.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

University presidents need to own up to the crass, speedy decisions that they have made and set aside greed for the promotion of their students’ and alumni community’s well-being.

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s deep at the heart of the formation of our organization and really serve as kind of the singular source for national best practice, peer-to-peer connections, research and advocacy. Very over accessed by white female students that come from a college educated family. And there are nuances in that peer-reviewed research.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our first Masters student from Malawi graduated in November 2013 (see BBC News article ), and I am pleased to report that full-fee scholarships have enabled a further 23 Malawian trainees to enrol on the Masters, twelve of whom graduated between 2014 and 2017, and nine are currently on-programme.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Most notably, he was the Director of the Administration’s College Scorecard, an initiative focused on higher education transparency and accountability. Our guest today is Michael Itzkowitz, president of the HEA Group, a higher ed consulting and research group that focuses on helping colleges be more affordable.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And so early on we had four experiences, study abroad, global education, we had research and we had internship. But in 2013, whenever I started here, I started looking at that transcript and we began to wonder, what would happen if we combined the academic and the co -curricular transcript together? And so that was a great step.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Vice-President, AAUP, 2012-18, 2019-20; Chair, AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2012 2021; Chair, AAUP Foundation, 2013-2021. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. It’s in biology, botany, mathematics, physics, and it extends now across the whole higher education system in Florida.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

and after adjusting for inflation, the average net tuition and fee price, paid by, first time enrolled students, who are in the state at public four year institutions, actually decreased, In, 2012, 2013. 00:18:14] Bill: And in this first year cohort, community colleges are flat. The story really is the net price.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Institutional governance is based on a typical model of traditional research universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The tuition-freeze proposal would address affordability, a priority for lawmakers, while securing funding for faculty hires, construction and maintenance, and research. Those include the University of Houston, Texas Tech University, Texas State University and the University of North Texas. Both versions include $2.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Holder, the 2013 case that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act. These observers also maintain that the researchers commissioned by the anti-affirmative action groups who purport to respond to Asian-American claimants but in fact solicit the Asian-Americans refuse to reveal their complete data and supposed analytical results.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Furthermore, the outgoing president helped found the Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER) to strengthen academic and co-curricular partnerships between Hartford and the college’s students, staff and faculty. Kent Trachte – Lycoming College (Penn.)

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Is College Worth It?: 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. University of Chicago Press.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I think these divides are taking a toll on students and faculty alike,” says Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and associate dean for research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law.

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