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Working Smarter: Leveraging Digital Tools for Student Advising

The Scholarly Teacher

These include building strong relationships, timely communication, staying organized, and effective time management. Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Navigating technology can be a very challenging aspect of academic advising. Educause Review.

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Busting Roadblocks in the Community College Enrollment Cycle

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

To ensure that doesn’t happen, avoid these common pitfalls in the community college enrollment journey: Complex Enrollment Processes Lengthy admissions procedures: Complicated and time-consuming application processes can frustrate new students, especially those unfamiliar with higher education procedures. But you’re only halfway home.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring.

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Faculty and Credit Transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The class, which started as a pilot in fall 2022, helps students create an action plan and a mission statement to guide their academic career, Garland explains. Both the statement and plan can change as a student explores major and career opportunities, but as tools for students and advising personnel, the documents guide choices.