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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan community colleges are open-admission institutions that offer affordable education and provide a vehicle for African American males who might not otherwise pursue a college education. Others mentioned that faculty made it hard for them or seemed only interested in earning a paycheck.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. Harvey Proactive, targeted zip code-focused recruitment combined with direct admissions. The shock waves that erupted following the U.S. Dr. William B. Coordinated scholarly presentations.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Cluster hiring instantly injects diversity into departments that have little, while making the experience easier for minoritized faculty members. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty. They were hiring three.

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NYU pauses admissions in music ed, surprising students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: When New York University announced last month that it would suspend admissions to its undergraduate music education program, students were shocked. Besides, the department had changed the curriculum before without stopping admissions. This approach will also tap into the expertise of the talented faculty in our other programs."

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students know that if they successfully complete this program, they are guaranteed admission to an affiliated four-year institution. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I or a graduate GPA of 3.0;