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Lakeland Community College Cuts Roughly 10% of Workforce to Avoid Financial Issues

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lakeland Community College board members voted recently for the unexpected 66-employee cut – part-and full-time workers, janitors, career services specialists, IT techs, groundskeepers, and others – which will take effect Jan. million in 2019 to $7.2 And some of those who will be cut will not receive benefit packages.

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2019 Festival of Creative Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: © Mihaela Bodlovic In this extra post, Teaching Matters is proud to highlight the fantastic work undertaken during the 2019 Festival of Creative Learning. We also provided a platform for innovative events such as the Students as Change Agents ‘ week-long challenge run by The University of Edinburgh Careers Service.

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Career Centers Get a Makeover

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As institutions place more focus on guiding students toward the best possible postgraduation outcomes, career services offices are getting extra funding and attention, data show.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Example of Mel’s artwork for Study Hub brand: Critical Thinking icon By the start of 2019, we knew wanted something more than refreshed resources. The new WordPress-based Academic Blogging Service afforded us an opportunity to create a new complementary blog within the Study Hub branding in summer 2019. Sep 12, 2019

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The University of Edinburgh, McEwan Hall, Careers Fair Day, Photo credit: Neil Hanna Photography. We put our money where our mouth is to offer students work experience in a number of areas, including part-time work in the Careers Service, and through coordinating the Employ.Ed Jul 18, 2019 Importantly these are all paid.

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Use learning, care and other values to shift campus culture

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. Image: Campus climate work affects all members of an institution’s community—but also requires a buy-in and intentional effort from all parties.

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Student advisers teach postgrad development skills

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For over a decade, students have worked alongside staff at the college’s career center to provide professional development help for the larger campus community, part of a long-standing institutional tradition. Is this Career Advice newsletter? Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: