Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career options, there is a growing number of first-time college students, age 18 to 22, that are seeking a traditional college experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Felder, president of Harford Community College in Maryland, where Stout began her community college career in 1984.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

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 ). Much institutional behavior shows a self-fulfilling process shaped by management practices ( Fabrizio, et al.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

In fact, a 2017 study by Northwestern University found that faculty members can offer both brilliant scholarships and brilliant teaching. It also isnt fair for students to enroll in classes expecting the name professor to be teaching only to find that the class will be led by a teaching assistant. There are downsides, however.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A 2017 AASCU presentation entitled, Higher Education 2032: Changing Demographics and How Presidents of State and Universities Can Respond, (which now seems to be missing from their website) projected major shifts in who will be in the student body. Seventeen percent of this group first enrolled a year after graduating from high school.)

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