Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. How do academic libraries spend their budgets?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. He spoke to an audience of AUC students, administrators, and fellow physicians about what society can do differently in mental health. Dr. Walter M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I Some states use it like full JSTOR.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Burwell also steered the campus through several racial controversies, including a 2019 incident in which campus police officers forcibly removed a Black student from a university apartment, and the 2023 discovery of a racist message written on a library whiteboard. Burwell has developed an increasingly diverse group of advisors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Tubbs grew up in Texas and attended Texas A&M University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in educational administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebrated my history. We often smiled at each other in the hallway. In 5 th grade, Ms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

I was compelled to be an educator’ Vassar spent two decades in K-12 roles as a teacher, counselor, and administrator after receiving her Ph.D. She held schooling in high esteem, and she made sure her children had library cards and took them to the library. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it opens as a unified institution in July, VTDigger reported. The goal of the changes, Grewal said, is to provide “greater equity of access to our library services.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Vermont State University has abandoned plans to go all virtual in its libraries, VTDigger reported. The university will also keep a small collection of “popular, casual, reading books” and children’s books in the libraries, administrators wrote. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

In May 2021, the FCC established the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) Program, offering similar discounts specifically for schools and libraries on wireless connections, hotspots, routers, modems, laptops , and computers. According to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), one in five U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dr. Wafa Hozien, university academic affairs administrator at NTU, was instrumental in the development of the program and its accreditation. Its master’s degree program in Diné Culture, Language, and Leadership required the institution to hire new faculty members and save money for a research library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I The freedom dreaming that Mims does with students began in Fairfax, Virginia, where she grew up as the daughter of a librarian mother and a lawyer father. I was able to dream out loud,” Mims recalls.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When she recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia, I asked Stephanie how she wanted colleges to respond to that problem. She suggested that they think hard about who their students are and what they truly need to succeed, then act to support them.

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CU Work-Life Balance

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Know the rules for using AI tools at CU Each CU campus has released AI guidelines: CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU Boulder CU Denver UCCS CU System Administration It’s most important that you understand and carefully follow the university’s information security and data classification policies. You can also access it from the library.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 24, 2024

5 Strategies for Improving University Library Management Services admin Wed, 07/24/2024 - 17:17 According to recent studies, improving student learning experiences globally requires efficient administration of university libraries.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. “We haven’t had time to assess this new cadre of students,” Trunnell said, adding that many college libraries are short-staffed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

One administrator, he said, would not allow material unless it was appropriate for a 12-year-old. “It It becomes a normal thing, just like a law library,” he said. “I He also encountered challenges with his senior project, a 60–80-page paper on the history of the urban novel.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A Comprehensive Guide to Library Management System Software. This tough task is now simplified, thanks to the library management system software. Let’s try to learn more about library management system software in this blog post. . How in general is a library managed? Wed, 12/07/2022 - 00:44.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. Happy reading! The Journal of Higher Education, 89 (5), 637-676.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 26, 2024

Instructors and administrators need to make informed decisions about the technology they select based on the students' pedagogical needs. Education leaders and teachers would ideally determine the technology training needs and activities necessary to prepare and support students rather than administrators or external entities alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

This campus sentiment contributed to a bold push for AAPI studies from students, from faculty, and – with Dhingra’s eventual rise to become Amherst’s associate provost and associate dean of the faculty – from Amherst administrators. Immigration Studies. A barebones number of faculty on the topic wouldn’t cut it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Academic library professionals across the higher education landscape are championing student success initiatives within their own spaces, particularly to equip new students for their academic careers. An older model among libraries is coming into classrooms like an English 101 course or a first-year seminar to share information.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

There were certain must-see items (the Tower Room in Baker Library), and there were certain spots that were emphatically not included on the tour (Fraternity Row and the ugly dorms of the Choates and the River Cluster). Or they may passively observe “real” students in the dining halls or libraries. But interact?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

While a proposal to lower pay for one group, which includes librarians, didn’t come to pass, at least in its entirety, faculty continue to feel divided in the aftermath of the process, and some worry the new agreement may still negatively affect campus libraries and relations between professors. This is like an age-old thing.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

In addition to Decatur at the Museum of Natural History, Daniel Weiss at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tony Marx at the New York Public Library; Karen Lawrence at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in California; and Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Institute all served as liberal arts college presidents.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

I want to talk about a third path: the wide range of interesting jobs that have a largely administrative element. Although some faculty members speak disparagingly about administrators, staff members are responsible for much of the work done in higher education institutions. What drew you to administrative work?

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College Forward

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Lessly’s path to graduation was marked by hurdles, setbacks, and moments of self-doubt, but through perseverance and the support of her College Possible coaches, she has emerged triumphant, recently earning a bachelor of science in business administration with a concentration in marketing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

The University of Rhode Island removed a partial quote by Malcolm X from the outside of its library building. The inscription read, “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ” Ad keywords: administrators diversity Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

To make the point, consider the young man who spends four hours every Saturday shelving books at the local library. This shows dedication and consistency, but it does not show increases in responsibility or increased impact for the library. Did your responsibilities increase over time, and if so, in what way?

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Last month, full-time faculty filed a motion of no confidence to school leadership when it announced a transition to a fully digital library, which would have eradicated roughly 300,000 books across its five campuses. University leaders also added that the decision would save the school $500,000 annually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Cureton, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U-M), voraciously pored through the books at her school library, telling the librarian she had plans to read each one and travel the world. It was innocent ambition, fenced in by her realities.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

I link to the final versions of the articles whenever possible, but those without access to an academic library should note that earlier versions of many of these articles are available online via a quick Google search. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. Here is the reading list I am assigning my students for the course.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

Finally, liberal arts students are required to take a certain number of elective courses, for which there are very few constraints, intellectually or administratively. Students are encourage to follow their own curiosities and learn about whatever tickles their intellectual fancy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Starting in 2011, Rueda-Acedo has incorporated innovative experiential learning activities and forged community partnerships with organizations such as the Arlington Public Library, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and DFW Toys for Tots. “In They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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