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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 12, 2024

In fact, some schools have experienced record growth over the last five years, and no higher education institutions are better positioned for continued growth in the next decade than community colleges. Community colleges play a crucial role in providing an accessible and affordable education to diverse student populations.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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. How much does it cost?

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. The initiative also increases the number of graduates who remain in the Dayton area and contribute to its local workforce.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Seven or eight advisers working furiously to help them. That’s how academic advising at Tallahassee Community College used to look, says Pamela Johnston, dean of career and academic planning there: “Very reactionary.” percent this academic year over last.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day.

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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.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Insights from Dr. Tiffany Ray-Patterson, VP of Student Success at Germanna Community College Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 166, Could Your Students Benefit from “One Front Door” Onboarding? Blogs What is “one front door” onboarding and how could it help your students? Enrollment saw a 16% increase.

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Parchment

MARCH 24, 2023

She said the wider the network of colleges using the platform becomes, the more useful it is. Parchment is a juggernaut in its niche of the ed-tech world, serving about 2,800 colleges and universities in the U.S. “It requires advising, program alignment, more human-process sorts of things.”

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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

MARCH 16, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

This is just one finding from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse’s recent Student Voice survey of 3,004 undergraduates about navigating their academic paths. Some examples: a student who hasn’t completed an advising requirement doesn’t register for the next semester at all. ” What about financial holds?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2023

It took a year for me to make a match, but when I saw an ad for a job as an academic adviser to language and linguistics majors at Georgetown, I immediately knew that I was going to get the job. Twenty-five years later, I’m still at Georgetown, in a much different position, but still working to support student academic life.

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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

“These messages are reinforced through meetings with academic advisers, who use the same principles and recommendations that students have heard previously,” Vecera adds. Introductory courses, such as College Algebra, also use the Learning at Iowa resources to support the new models of learning. Share your story.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

While it can be intimidating or burdensome to a first-year student to consider life after college, starting small with different processes like a skills assessment can begin to drive career readiness, VanDerziel shares. There’s a communications gap,” VanDerziel says. Get students thinking about career prep early.

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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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

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. It’s about service-oriented levels of engagement ,’” explains Sine. Why a One-Stop?

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Chilton Elsewhere across higher education, there has been a minor hiring surge of colleges and universities filling vacancies at the top. Chilton also served as Washington State’s provost and executive vice president and was previously dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University in New York.

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Asynchronous Learning While many colleges and universities seek to hold fast to the tradition of synchronous learning, from an enrollment perspective, this strategy can be unwise. Communicating Value and Career Pathways Effective enrollment strategies begin with clear and consistent messaging about outcomes. You guessed it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Innovations in Experiential Learning OSU Cascades additionally features an Innovation Co-Lab , a department emphasizing start-up culture and innovation in private and public sectors for its students, staff and community members and is building an Innovation District to complement. … How do we engage more students?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Meanwhile, Amarillo College had launched an initiative in the wake of the pandemic to determine the mental health status of students and the resources available to help them address mental health challenges. He believes it’s just as important for colleges to be cognizant of what their employees are feeling or experiencing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. What could be wrong with this development? Problem No. or Seattle—an untenable dream.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

Source: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, originally published by CT Mirror More from UB: Cash is king for this university’s new student success strategy Programs in trouble Student support services such as mental health support and academic advising will be severely impacted by the cuts, according to Chen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

” Q: What led you to your role as associate provost for student success at York College? This position, in what was then Academic Services, came open, and we revamped it into a student success division. My [academic] path was such twists and turns that I wouldn’t have been measured well by retention or graduation rates.

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Parchment

AUGUST 30, 2024

Dual enrollment, sometimes referred to as dual credit or concurrent enrollment, enables high school learners to take college-level courses and earn college credits while also fulfilling requirements for high school graduation. million high school learners participated in at least one dual enrollment course in the 2022-23 academic year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean It took me years to get past my first impression of academic advising. Graduate school advising is something else altogether, probably best described through fiction. So for years, I didn’t put much stock in advising. I was entrusted to a physics professor.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In an era when nearly all students would benefit from improved transfer and credit mobility, the ecosystem continues to be plagued by many disconnects that make completion of a college credential more expensive and challenging for students.

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NACADA

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

However, you can look forward to seeing the following presentations in Pittsburgh: Region 3 Big Goals, Big Moves – Searching for Success Through Self-Actualization Doris Munoz-Fayetteville Technical Community Colleg e Allison Sigmon-University of North Carolina at Charlotte “Having a mid-career crisis?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Personalized Academic Advising: Personalized academic advising is crucial in guiding students toward the right courses and resources to help them catch up and succeed academically. It's essential that your messaging is deliberate; click here to explore how to implement equity-based communication strategies.

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 15, 2023

From August 1, 2018 to July 1, 2021, 7,318 mentions from 5,445 students were collected and analyzed to see how their college-going perspectives changed from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic through the height of it. These conversations consistently reflected stress, worries, and concerns about future plans and pressures to achieve success.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Students, parents, and the public increasingly want colleges to demonstrate a tangible return on the investment of their time and money (including debt). Third, the impact of pandemic-era disrupted learning will continue to accelerate into the late 2020s as today’s primary and secondary students enter college.

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