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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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How University of Arizona Global Campus’ Online Recruitment Ads Drain Its Finances (Jeremy Bauer-Wolf)

Higher Education Inquirer

UAGC, as its president said in 2022 , is well-positioned to provide adult learners with affordable college credentials that can better prepare them for careers in a rapidly evolving global economy. Administrators pledged to rehabilitate UAGC and abandon the exploitation that landed the former Ashford in legal hot water.

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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. In the Career Center, students are able to name and engage challenges they face when encountering an uncertain future.

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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. Employ a learner.

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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?: The advising appointment with staff is often more efficient and productive, as well.

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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

With very little experience of the Edinburgh Fringe festival as a 2019 fresher, I decided to apply for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas internship, which required event promotion and social media management. I had worked in customer service roles prior to this internship. Joining the Employ.ed

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