Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: Community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce, according to a new report. Some recent expansion efforts have met with pushback from CSU faculty members. Hispanics make up 38.1

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APRIL 5, 2023

Image: Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. Leaders of the two organizations plan to lay the groundwork to bring more Head Start centers to community college campuses.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A recent article published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mentioned faculty concern about the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. This article, written by Dr. William B. The problem wasn’t about AI, as it is more popularly known.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Joya Misra, Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O’Meara offer four strategies for ensuring workload and rewards systems equitably recognize the efforts of women faculty of color. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Maximizing faculty development’s impact on student success and equitable learning requires targeted action. The report , which is based on survey and interview data from 95 responding institutions, also draws on evidence-based standards for high-impact faculty development. ” At MSIs, the figure was only 29 percent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 20, 2023

Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning Differ Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1216047089.png png jessica.blake@… Wed, 06/21/2023 - 12:00 AM

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez From earning an associate degree to serving as president of a community college, Alvarez understands the value of higher education and the need to create pathways and support systems. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 He has a deep connection to community colleges.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. But he nonetheless continues to support the bill.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. Happy reading!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Focus on the Future.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

“Anti-racism statements are a covert way to justify lowering dissenting professors’ annual scores in the existing categories of teaching, scholarship and service, which could ultimately assist in purging the faculty of political dissidents. Furthermore, UHD’s faculty hiring and promotion practices are based solely on merit.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty and staff serving Indigenous students at PWIs must be aware of the varying institutional contexts and how students navigate and experience their educational pathways. Funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and support of the American Indian College Fund have maintained the TCURJ as an open access journal. Mathis of the John E.

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The Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Heather Young Mandujano , Cuyahoga Community College Rebecca Wiggins , Cuyahoga Community College Key Statement: Learn how to use game elements and strategies to build immersive, on-demand learning experiences that are as entertaining as they are effective. This is true for both faculty and students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Alesia Jennings , Western Carolina University April Tallant , Western Carolina University Key Statement: A six-anchor model to boost new faculty teaching self-efficacy was developed, providing practical applications for faculty development programs and individual course design. Six anchor model of Faculty Forward.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says. At community colleges, the ratio grows, with nearly three women to every two men.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Like all UPR faculty, we carry a 12-credit teaching load, and in the midst of UPR’s fiscal crisis, a basic teaching load of 15 credits has been spotted more than once on the horizon. This is one in a series of articles about New York University's Faculty Resource Network.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 5, 2023

In Proctoring Debate, Stanford Faculty Takes ‘Nuclear Option’ Featured Image at Top of Article g.jpeg Johanna Alonso Fri, 05/05/2023 - 03:00 AM

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

Behling gives advice for revising the Faculty Handbook, which can be challenging and take longer than hoped but is nevertheless crucial for faculty and institutions alike. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 8 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Walker, the AAUP’s grievance officer, alleged in a letter to the provost that the university had failed to follow the union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee. AAUP-Utica president Leonore Fleming said the union represents full-time faculty there, librarians and some other employees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Image: A debate over how to achieve pay parity between two groups of faculty members has left lingering tensions among professors in the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona. Adjuncts who work as service faculty currently make $53 per hour, and those who only teach earn $32 per hour.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

And while the idea that “learning can be fun is thrown out the window once in college,” it can be “just as exciting for us.” 2 response to a separate survey question about which faculty actions students believe would promote their academic success. This was the No. Only more flexible deadlines was more popular.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Paula Jakopovic , University of Nebraska at Omaha Kelly Gomez Johnson , University of Nebraska at Omaha Key Statement: This article highlights communities of practice as a means for supporting faculty as they seek to( re)design courses with equitable, research-informed practices.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: The University of Rochester launched a training program and research study for faculty member mindfulness in January, promoting self-care, stress relief and wellness so professors can put their best foot forward in the classroom. What it is: The faculty participants attend seven Zoom workshops, engaging with wellness content material.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 24, 2023

Helping Faculty Increase Their Research Impact Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1127460680.jpg jpg Sarah Bray Thu, 05/25/2023 - 12:00 AM

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Category: Former Faculty Why is it that no amount of conversation on the topic seems to meet the ever-increasing demand for it? Jocelyn Frelier, a former faculty member, asks and provides some answers. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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.” The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

The telehealth provider surveyed over 500 faculty and staff at two- and four-year institutions last month for this survey. Students’ sustained mental health issues are essentially feeding faculty and staff’s stress and anxiety, according to the TimelyCare survey. Employee workload was identified as the No. ” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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