Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

Often faculty members are evaluating courses, academic advisers are guiding students and administrators are making the higher-level policy decisions. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Meanwhile, students, not knowing where to go for information, turn to the internet.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

An August 2022 Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found that first-generation students were likely to lack any internship experience or experiential learning within a course: half of all first-gen students and two-thirds of first-gen community college students had not had these experiences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. and Elizabeth W.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“These messages are reinforced through meetings with academic advisers, who use the same principles and recommendations that students have heard previously,” Vecera adds. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One approach: Kansas Wesleyan University matches each of its incoming students to a student success coach, who provides one-on-one first-year engagement with the Student Success Center’s resources prior to their work with an academic adviser. Create career services champions across campus. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Some examples: a student who hasn’t completed an advising requirement doesn’t register for the next semester at all. ” Melinda Anderson, executive director of the academic advising group NACADA, says she’s been encouraging institutions to re-examine their hold policies. No In-Article Careers: 6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

During her academic career, Rivera Restivo says she’s found advisers have high levels of responsibility but are not always helpful. Rivera Restivo is working on her associate’s degree at Northwestern Connecticut Community College and feels advising resources neglect nontraditional students, like herself.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The university will increase its staff of career-development officers and academic advisers as well as data managers and software personnel to make the program run successfully. No In-Article Careers: 3

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Interventions include completion grants , college-to-career transitions and proactive academic advising , all three of which the alliance has turned into free “playbooks” for other institutions’ use. The alliance uses different tools to develop evidence-based solutions for student success that can be scaled.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

“​​What some colleges don’t understand is that you have to take care of your staff to the utmost of your ability if you want them to continue to go above and beyond for the students who they’re trying to help navigate the system,” said Melodie Graves, associate director of academic advising at Amarillo.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

So we put up one barrier … and that is you have to talk to an academic adviser. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 8 In-Article Advertisement High: 16 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 20 Include DNU?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The issue can be a lack of a centralized, cross-departmental office that acts as a one-stop shop for all career-related issues on campus, limited coordination between career offices and other student-facing units like academic advising or student affairs, or both. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Parchment

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this article, we dig deeper to see how dual enrollment can open doors to college for a broader range of learners, examine the persistent gaps in access to dual enrollment opportunities, and explore a strategy that community colleges are implementing to break down the barriers still standing in the way.

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Parchment

JANUARY 16, 2024

And we talked about there’s a lot of students that are attending a community college that want to transfer to another institution, but don’t end up doing it. Eight out of 10 students that go to a community college want to go. We should ask, is our college ready for transfers? How can I make that better?

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And we published an article in NACE that said, you know, employers, you know, found it to be a useful document. And we don’t just say academic anymore. The academic advisors have that discussion. We use a model where faculty actually advise students their third and their fourth year. Like, where do we want to go?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

(Just one in five Student Voice survey respondents says they’re required to meet periodically with advisers, though the number is closer to three in 10 for students at private institutions and just 14 percent for community college students.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Staying in Florida for annual meetings this year are the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Symposium for 10 years and sought to extend the boundaries of the university community countywide. For the past 35-plus years, Parham has focused his research efforts in the area of psychological nigrescence and has authored numerous articles in the area. I left to go to community college and came back.

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