Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: For students, leveraging their institution’s alumni network can be easier said than done. The team puts on dozens of events and works with hundreds of alumni who conduct interviews and writes a blog to create resources for their classmates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). Marta is one of approximately 25 million adults in the U.S. Despite increased opportunities for online educational programming, their analysis concludes “.it’s

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PUC

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After PUC, he graduated from medical school in 2016, went on to residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in 2021, head and neck surgical oncology fellowship in 2022, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship in June. […] Peter Han graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in biology and a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947. Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Colleges and universities can make the benefits even more meaningful by accepting SNAP on campus (Oregon State began doing this in 2016 and Penn State recently began as well) and/or exempting SNAP recipients from meal plan requirements. The average benefit for a single adult is around $2,000 a year and it is higher for students with children.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Experts say that faculty, administration, alumni, and even current students have a role to play in influencing the stability of their university’s executive office. We truly get to know them in terms of board, alumni, students, faculty, and staff.” The environment wasn’t what was described.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. We work with them directly, partnering with our National Alumni Council. In the last few years, we've had somewhere between 2-3% of students attending.

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College for Creative Study

JANUARY 4, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Sterling Toles (‘00, GC) has been selected as the 2024 Alumni Juror for Re/View: CCS Alumni Exhibition. Sterling Toles is a visual/sonic artist educator and a 2016 Kresge Fellow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2016, the NCAA created the Presidential Pledge, stating a commitment to promoting and achieving ethnic, racial, and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics. “Also, that office started some of the programming to promote the preparation of Black and Brown individuals and women to prepare for leadership roles in college sports.”

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EAB

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Blogs Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning 8 tactics to benefit your alumni—and recruit more adult leaners Professional, continuing, and online leaders too often overlook one of the most fruitful recruitment pools: alumni, many of whom are excellent candidates as adult learners.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Alumni work at high-profile organizations, such as Apple, Microsoft, Paylocity and others. The university launched its cybersecurity program in 2012 and founded the Center for Engaging Women in Cybersecurity in 2016. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (3). The University of Texas at Dallas (10). More from UB : Agree or disagree?

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Dr. Sánchez previously served as the president of Rhode Island College (RIC) from 2016 to 2022 and is celebrated for his achievements in enhancing social mobility rankings, diversifying student bodies, modernizing academic facilities and fundraising—objectives in line with Manhattanville’s strategic priorities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Blackwood said she isn’t entirely sure why that’s so; unlike Montclair, the department’s last curricular update was back in 2016. ” Another strategy involves bringing successful alumni to campus to help dispel myths about English students’ employability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We We also developed a social network that by the time they graduate they engage with alumni and the community, who can offer a level of support, mentorship and sponsorship that will be essential for them to be successful.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences. This Masters consistently brings together a special group of people. Overall, we’re building a community.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

” Rasmussen recalled how the college’s board, made up mostly of alumni, grappled with the idea of adding graduate students after the 2015 announcement by the athletic training coalition about the policy change requiring a master’s degree for a person to sit for a certifying exam.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Digging Into the Data Using federal education data, Lightcast researchers found growth at 2,274 out of 8,007 new programs studied from 2016–17 through 2021, for a success rate of 28.4 percent for institutions with 5,001 or more graduates in 2016. It also noted a success rate of 36.4

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ISA Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

In the gardens of the Real Alcázar de Sevilla (2016) My first taste of studying… Kacper Grass is an ISA Barcelona and Seville alumnus at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville who's impactful time in Spain influenced him to pursue graduate school in Barcelona.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Keen to find out more about why this demographic had seemingly narrowed I began a secondment in January 2016 with the Institute of Academic Development in order to research further. Dec 1, 2016

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 23, 2016

Mar 23, 2016 We invited a student filmmaker, Perry Jonsson , to capture some footage of different events that took place this year and to talk to staff and students about their experiences.

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ISA Journal

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Kacper Grass is an ISA Barcelona and Seville alumnus at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville whose experience abroad in 2015-2016 led to new discoveries in professional growth and an opportunity to extend his stay in Spain. We reached out to learn more about why he chose to go abroad with ISA Spain and about his time working…

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Coding Club brings together undergraduate students, recent alumni, PhD students and researchers from the University of Edinburgh for weekly peer-led workshops to deliver a meaningful and motivational learning experience. Dec 6, 2016

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

In this blog post, Pooja and Ankita, SACHA alumni discuss co-creation and collaboration in course design. 2016 ; Mapstone et al., 2016 ; Mapstone et al., Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Pooja Suresh Kumar is pursuing her Master’s degree in Public Health.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Beginning in the fall of 2021, input was gathered from the OSU community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and stakeholders. OSU underwent a planning process to help inform and guide decision-making for the future. Resources Boyer, E. Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Jossey-Bass. Gavazzi, S.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A campus closure can be a heartbreaking experience for students, alumni and college communities. Almost 12,000 campuses closed between 2004 and 2016, according to the Postsecondary Education Participants System. Abrupt shutdowns are far more likely to affect students at for-profit institutions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 30, 2022

University of Phoenix enrollment, 2009-2016 (Source: US Department of Education) There are a several reasons why University of Phoenix is just a shadow of what it was. By 2014, about 1 million University of Phoenix's alumni were saddled with more than $35 billion in student loan debt.

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College Forward

MARCH 28, 2024

College Possible has been serving Decatur students since 2016, providing nearly eight years of support for students who are interested in furthering their education through college. Decatur also has many notable alumni, including Iam Tongi, who won last year’s 21st season of American Idol, when he was still a senior at Decatur!

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2016, The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), founded in 1950, conducted a comprehensive survey of 1205 of its alumni. Some interesting facts come out: 39% failed to fully exploit international business opportunities due to insufficient internationally competent personnel in the past five years.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

While these examples do come with the challenges and risks of embracing spontaneity and sharing ownership (Bovill, Cook-Sather, Felten, Millard, & Moore-Cherry, 2016; Mercer-Mapstone et al., 2017), there are also many benefits! 176 – 188). Oxford, UK: Oxford Brookes University: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

DSTI has been running since January 2016, and student numbers continue to grow each year, with 145 students currently enrolled. Flexibility is at the heart of the programme which offers inter-disciplinary courses from across the University.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 19, 2019

Reproductive Biology Honours : A student’s article on high-grade serous carcinoma, one of the most common forms of ovarian cancer, includes 60 references and diagrams she created, has been viewed over 67,000 times since 2016.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Higher Ed Challenge 1: Declining Enrollment and Demographic Shifts Challenge: Enrollment numbers have decreased significantly, dropping from 18 million students in 2016 to 16.5 million in 2022. This decline is driven by demographic changes, such as a shrinking college-aged population and evolving perceptions of higher educations value.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

Some of our most engaged recent alumni are former participants in the Award, and contribute to group input sessions as part of the Award, as well as other student experience initiatives within the school. This funded the time to undertake a mapping exercise across all of our undergraduate courses.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

AUGUST 1, 2016

It is clear from the various pilots across the University, most notably Student-Led Independently Created Courses (SLICCs), that these sorts of experiences enable our students to flourish (read more about SLICCs in Jonny Ross-Tatam’s Teaching Matters post from March 2016). Aug 1, 2016

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University Business

JULY 31, 2023

He had served as president from the beginning of 2016. “I The entire class of 2016 withdrew from the program. Tessier-Lavigne consequently resigned following the committee’s findings. The Panel’s review also identified instances of manipulation of research data by others in my lab.

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University Business

MAY 26, 2023

Introcaso received the Passavant Foundation Legacy of Caring Award in 2018 and won the Pittsburgh Magazine and S&T Bank Woman and Business Award in 2016, according to WPXI. During the 2016-17 academic year, Lee also led the academic affairs department as interim provost.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Now mainstreamed following successful pilots in summers 2015 and 2016, SLICCs have gathered significant interest internally and externally. The scope for student agency is significant, with students defining their own unique learning experiences.

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