Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

The COVID pandemic created a further influx of concentrated efforts in finding supportive solutions for the student mental health crisis ( Chen and Lucock, 2022 ; Copeland et al , 2021 ). Since then Advance HE has also developed the “race charter”. But what do we know about academic mental health?

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University Business

JULY 25, 2024

Lucchese says on the district’s website that he is eager to learn from students’ and faculty’s “experiences and expertise across such a wide range of creative disciplines, from music education, dance, and theater to management, production, performance, music therapy, and more.”

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. percent over 2021. million in federal relief funding. Arkansas’s Henderson State cut its faculty and staff from 330 to 230.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: University of Kentucky faculty members are working to train hundreds of K-12 teachers in the state to teach about the Holocaust. An Anti-Defamation League report released in April found antisemitic incidents were at an all-time high in 2021, at an average of seven daily incidents in the U.S. Kentucky is no exception.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. This, he said, became controversial among the school’s senior faculty, eventually leading to his ouster by an interim provost. But I hope that you will try to understand what that is.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the fiscal year 2022, the university received $115 million in donations , which set a school record for the most gifts raised during a single fiscal year. In the fiscal year 2022, UA raised nearly $226 million in charitable gifts and pledges, setting a fundraising record for the university.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. UTOs must belong to a Faculty or Department but they may choose to be members of more than one. Academic jobs with an element of security are increasingly hard to get.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Others, like Merrimack College and BYU Idaho, have developed ready-to-launch proposals that they hope their respective accreditors will approve. Zemsky and Carrell did not provide a template for a three-year degree, tasking the participants involved with developing their own programs.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Headline news has reignited debates about how financial hardship and challenging labour market conditions are squeezing students’ study-life balance, and alarmingly raised claims that part-time jobs may disproportionally disadvantage less privileged students ( BBC News 2023 ). His monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Source: Student Loan Planner Mental Health Survey 2021) --> Three strategies to enhance student financial wellness and prepare students for loan repayment 1. Microgrants : Funds are available and promoted to appropriate students to prevent small debts from hindering future enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

Joyce Payne is founder of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the national advocacy organization designed to support students who attend the 47 publicly supported HBCUs. In 2021, TMCF launched the CSJ to advance social justice for Black Americans. It is part of Bonner’s “Diverse Faculty in the Academy” series with Routledge.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It's only after researching programs and admissions requirements that adult learners begin to research things like general information about the school, classes, or even faculty research interests. And it's not just dependence, it's the anticipation and with prospective students really relying on that to fund their education.

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The Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. funded by a Kansas foundation. Impact of Exercising on the Brain. Conclusion.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Earlier this year, the college announced a funding gap of $2 million that it needed to close quickly in order to remain open. And given Chung’s track record of sinking other colleges, faculty and staff worry the King’s College may be headed for the same fate. Some faculty and staff saw warning signs from the start.

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Goucher DEI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Faculty Work to Advance DEIJ Initiatives Goucher faculty have been advancing DEIJ in several ways, including reviewing and strengthening the guidelines for all Race, Power, and Perspective (RPP) courses. Our faculty and staff also continue their important work on the Hallowed Ground Project.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission’s Safeguards Rule, which changed the standards around safeguarding customer information, went into effect on December 9 th , 2021. Brian is also an Adjunct Professor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he has developed and teaches cybersecurity courses. It’s in its sixth year now.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. “In the fall of 2021, management decided to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign to bring in more students, which by itself is not an issue. million, from $5.2

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. Many contingent faculty are shocked to realize that college teaching is a working-class job.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If the trend holds, anti-CRT measures will increase 14% this year, up from 2021 and 2022. I expect that we’ll see attempts to ban gender studies through legislation using the same tools they’ve used to restrict DEI, defunding departments or banning the university from accepting outside funds, effectively killing the program.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Faculty Senate chair Peter Summers said by email that while some High Point University faculty members raised concerns after the hire, “that was as far as it went, given our lack of authority.” ” An effective dean, she added, can work with students and faculty of all political leanings.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

Additionally, there is a significant emphasis on the ongoing training and development of leaders in communication skills. for 15 years, earning a master’s in communication from American University, and returned to New Jersey in 2021. And the one concept, one of the concepts he raised really stuck with me.

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