Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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JUNE 15, 2023

Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities. Many of these careers are associated with a degree or other credential (or pathway) at the College. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Heather Young Mandujano , Cuyahoga Community College Rebecca Wiggins , Cuyahoga Community College Key Statement: Learn how to use game elements and strategies to build immersive, on-demand learning experiences that are as entertaining as they are effective. This is true for both faculty and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Energy and excitement filled the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, as over two thousand community college leaders, faculty, and staff gathered to share stories of access, equity, and inclusion at the 2023 Dream conference. Our colleges have to be inextricably connected to our communities, leveraging our localness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Geisler last summer.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Paula Jakopovic , University of Nebraska at Omaha Kelly Gomez Johnson , University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article highlights communities of practice as a means for supporting faculty as they seek to( re)design courses with equitable, research-informed practices. Image from , Unsplash.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. 2019, December 9).

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

“Colleges and universities that are eligible and federally designated as HSIs must enhance the racial-ethnic identity of Latinxs while striving to provide equitable experiences and outcomes for these students.” In 2019, however, the system was awarded the National Seal of Excelencia by the nonprofit Excelencia in Education.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The keys to endurance: An investigation of the institutional factors relating to the persistence of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 2019, December 9). link ) Ducoff, N.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ann Lichliter , Winona State University Mary Kirk , Winona State University Keywords: Equitable, Transparent, Assignments Key Statement: To benefit all students, faculty redesigned course assignments using the transparent assignment framework to increase student efficacy and improve learning outcomes. 2019; Lin et al.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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University Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For-credit micro-credentials aren’t just fueling enrollment at community colleges across the United States. By 2019, these non-degree offerings made up 71% of all credentials awarded by community colleges, according to the National Center of Education Statistics. and around the world.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This data update included finance data from the 2020-21 fiscal year—the first year to be fully affected by the pandemic following a partially affected 2019-20 fiscal year. Thanks to stronger-than-expected state budgets and timely rounds of federal support, colleges largely avoided the worst-case scenario of closure.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in community college transfer students, NC Newsline reports.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Doug Binsfeld – Northern Maine Community College The Main Community College System president and board of trustees have announced their approval of hiring Doug Binsfeld to head Northern Maine Community College. Stepping down Gilda Barabino – Olin College of Engineering (Mass.)

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. million people in 2022, up 1.75 percent from 3,868,066 in fall 2020, during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. Rather than signaling a rejection of college, the decline reflects a decrease in the size of the college-going population, especially in the Midwest, and a shift away from institutions with the lowest completion rates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

A group of students from the Community College of Baltimore County set out to answer such questions and pull back the curtain on higher education for students through their podcast. One, it’s an opportunity for dialogue led by community college students who are disadvantaged by rankings and the prestige of “good schools.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Barnes eventually reset her goals and reached a new professional peak last August when she was named chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 8, 2023

A mandated curriculum long sought by Virginia Commonwealth students and faculty members was set to take effect this fall. The university delayed it late last month, and advocates don’t buy its reasoning for doing so.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

The inspiration: The 360 course concept was born in fall 2019 from a desire to increase visibility of and access to interdisciplinary studies on campus, explains Lauren Rosenbaum, general studies professor and head of the 360 courses. The program launched in fall 2019, and the initial course focused on food.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 8, 2023

Mirroring the complaint of every professor since the University of Bologna was established in 1088, Cowen observes that faculty must deal with “ too much bureaucracy and not enough time for the academic work itself.” Nor does he write about the inadequate investment in community colleges at every level of government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: When a college president resigns or retires, the institution’s governing board usually announces the steps it will take to replace the outgoing leader. The Board of Trustees of Parkland College followed that script in 2019 when Thomas Ramage told board members he planned to retire in 2022.

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