Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Community Colleges The Hechinger Report, a higher ed news source not given to hyperbole or scare headlines, recently posted an alarming article entitled : “‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. Unfortunately, like many small private colleges in recent years, Bloomfield has struggled financially. Yet, neither administration has recognized the value of Bloomfield faculty in a tangible way.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Administrators have said only 23 current faculty and staff members will lose their jobs. The crisis had been partly obscured, he said, by COVID-19 relief funds that had flowed from the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic—money that the university couldn’t count on for long.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One of the surest ways to build a sense of self-efficacy among students is to incorporate community engagement experiences in the curriculum. In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Partner with local governments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Nationally representative data can address these issues and provide benchmarks that university administrators can use to understand how faculty work and life at their institution may compare in relation to peer institutions. The survey was last administered in fall 2003, with earlier administrations in 1987, 1992 and 1998.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

A public institution that relies on Garcetti as a rationale to try and disavow faculty academic freedom in teaching, research and service, including shared governance participation, has explicitly rejected this key accreditation requirement. In fact, this argument has already been extended to Florida institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” Relegation of universities could trigger political pushback from local councils that treasure them, state governments that own them and a federal government sensitive to perceptions of rural areas getting a raw deal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Wraparound support programs and comprehensive student support programs like the CUNY ASAP program for the community colleges in New York City is a holistic program that works. Build stronger and more effective college partnerships between institutions. There’s also the Dell Scholars Program at four-year institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

From a macro perspective, higher education oversight operates as a three-legged stool held up by the states, the federal government and accrediting agencies, collectively known as the triad, all charged with protecting the interests of students, taxpayers and the public.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

However, Collier noted that the changes would be less helpful for community college graduates and those with certificates. So, on average, it’s not going to help the individuals who went to community college and got a degree.” The new rules waive unpaid interest to prevent this from happening.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

To help reduce costs, a significant role of boards and administrators includes identifying what programs are no longer by realizing if they align with local industries, for example. One of the significant challenges of talking about rural colleges is that there is no one agreed definition of what rural is. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: If the Biden administration wants to create a list of “low-financial-value” postsecondary programs, it’s going to have to overcome stiff opposition from the higher education lobby, which decried the plan as a slippery slope, problematic and potentially dangerous.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The state and federal governments should defund programs and penalize institutions that fail to meet certain gainful-employment standards. I fear that at all too many institutions, faculty act like members of Congress who defer responsibility for governance to the executive branch and government agencies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the last two decades, our nation’s community colleges have received increasing recognition, and for good reason. Community college students are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, and from lower-income backgrounds than four-year students. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Dietra Trent, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs, said that despite the investments the Biden-Harris administration has made to HBCUs – more than $7 billion – HBCUs continue to face a myriad of challenges, from lagging revenue and deteriorating buildings to insufficient broadband access and student support. “Of

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

In terms of day-to-day administration, Crazy Bull points to teamwork. “I The most endowed higher education institutions have all the whistles and bells, and the lower income institutions like the ones we represent don’t get enough support from the federal government or from the states to make up for those inequities that exist in communities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility. From 2011 onward, the College Meltdown was most visible with for-profit colleges and community colleges, but other non-elite schools and for-profit businesses were also affected.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. Conclusion.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“Community colleges are highly sensitive to changes in the macroeconomy,” he says. “If we go into a deep recession with increased unemployment, we’ll see more people going to community colleges to upskill and pursue new opportunities in the workforce.” ” No recession relief?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: If the Biden administration’s debt-relief plan survives the U.S. The question of standing has been a key theme in the recent legal battle over the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for eligible Americans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The bill boosts funding levels for a range of federal higher education programs, including $137 million more for historically underresourced institutions. However, the Biden administration, advocates and interest groups had hoped to see higher increases across the board. The Biden administration had requested $800 million more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: The Biden administration is moving forward on a sweeping plan to overhaul how student borrowers can repay their loans, though advocates want the Education Department to go further in its plan, while critics cite the price tag as an area of concern. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Colleges will have to submit to the federal government new data on their distance education programs under a batch of new rules the Biden administration finalized Monday. In a blow for immigration advocates, the Education Department decided against expanding some TRIO programs to undocumented students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Foxx has promised to oppose many of the Biden administration’s education policies, including student loan debt relief policy changes. She and other Republican lawmakers have criticized the state of free speech on college campuses. It is time to restore Constitutional government in America.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. The Case of New College: A Blueprint for Political Overreach One of the report’s most startling revelations is the takeover of New College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Meanwhile, admissions to the more selective institutions became much more competitive and the market for students became less local, but students from lower-income backgrounds were increasingly concentrated in the colleges with the fewest resources. Also, campuses became, increasingly, political and ideological battlegrounds.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023. A: My book is based on research I’ve conducted into the federal government’s role in higher education throughout history and today.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. Strategic Responses and Adaptations In response to these pressures, colleges and universities have adopted various strategies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Advocates and higher education groups said the $500 bump is significant and will help more students afford a college education. Department of Education is receiving nearly $4 billion more in discretionary funds, although the Biden administration had requested $13 billion more. The Biden administration had requested $800 million more.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

Whitman’s administration. for 15 years, earning a master’s in communication from American University, and returned to New Jersey in 2021. Representative Rodney Fragenhuysen, and five years in the administration of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Have you engaged with your local community college?

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