Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Elizabeth Dellavedova, associate library director at a community college, connected with me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Q: Can you share your concerns about my blog post on academic library spending? Encouraging students to visit the library is not enough.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. Budget cuts—real or imagined—are not the only challenge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

based attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School. “He Last fall, the Ogletree family donated papers from Ogletree’s career to the Harvard Law School Library, which will make them available on a rolling basis over the next 3 years. I'm from Kentucky. I liked that.

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Keywords: Service-learning, public health, graduate education, community needs, student engagement, research, high-impact practices Introduction High-impact practices (HIPs) such as global learning, service-learning, research, and collaborative projects provide educational benefits by engaging students in a way that elevates their learning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” In 2020, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley sued the San Francisco–based Internet Archive over its National Emergency Library, which was created when physical libraries closed during COVID-19 lockdowns. ” Libraries that engage in controlled digital lending do so in many ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

It was hard for you to concentrate and dig deep in the research that you were most passionate about,” he said. There’s no reason why newspaper articles about a drug bust should be kept from somebody who was writing a paper about it.” It becomes a normal thing, just like a law library,” he said. “I

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Educational Researcher. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. Friedman, J. link ) Gándara, D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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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. Student success within the library can mean having a quiet study space, finding materials for classwork or receiving research guidance.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Most of the strategies were taken from the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Equitable-Focused Teaching website (n.d.), Conclusion This article outlined six anchors of the Faculty Forward Program designed for new faculty to become confident, engaged teachers. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

KWU’s student success coaching program gives students a personal connection to library resources and its personnel, which in turn boosts retention, says student success center director JD Koons. Nationally, retention is a bit higher; about 66.4 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

and Guam, have legalized the sale, use and production of marijuana; 27 states have decriminalized it, and research data have shown an increase in cannabis use on college campuses across the country even as alcohol consumption has declined. Twenty-one states , along with Washington, D.C.,

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

You might grab a coffee with them after class to discuss your research paper. You might share articles on topics of shared interest. Faculty incentives are different in liberal arts college than in major research universities. Or you might yourself having dinner with their family.

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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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During this hands-on activity, students carefully unroll replicas of picture scrolls from the late Heian period in the Main Librarys rare book section. She is currently working on a kanji experiential learning project and conducting research on visual media discourse. Click the link for my recent journal article on female demons.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

What the hub includes: Resources include training links, research articles, book lists, podcast suggestions and recommended websites. It is a place for everything related to neurodiversity, from instructor resources and research articles to neurodiversity events.” No In-Article Careers: 3

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2023

Here’s what looks good on a college application It’s not what you do, but how well you do it Many folks think that there is some secret check list that one follows to get into selective colleges: community service, academic research, leadership, sports, the arts, an internship. Research is not just for science, either.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Should unpaid parking tickets or housing and library fees result in a registration hold, she asks, “or should students be penalized based on that resource—car being towed, housing contracts revoked and library privileges removed?” No In-Article Careers: 6

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

Instead, I use articles, working papers, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 31291. The distribution of indirect cost recovery in academic research.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

In the sociology of education, a well-researched form of dialect code-switching is when Black students must switch between African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and so-called mainstream American English. Samantha Nousak is a postdoctoral research scholar in health policy and management at Kent State University.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Instead, I use articles, working papers, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 27885. Economics of Education Review, 73 , Article 101915. Research in Higher Education, 59 (4), 489-518. Friedman, J. Gándara, D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Alfonso Martinez Arias’s The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life ( Basic Books , August) “draw[s] on new research from his own lab and others” to challenge the genome-centric perspective of recent decades. ” No doubt it will be banned from some libraries.

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Study and Go Abroad

JANUARY 16, 2023

Do you want to study at a research-level higher education institute , which has a practical focus? Nyenrode Business University is the only private research university in the Netherlands and was founded in 1949 by leading corporations including Phillips, KLM, Shell, and Unilever. Nyenrode Business University. sponsored by Nyenrode.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 24, 2023

You can get access to my free resource library by opting in to receive text alerts! Pollinator Garden One of my environmental science students read an article about colony collapse disorder (disappearing bees). That one article launched her into a super cool project-based learning experience. The investigation was on!

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 24, 2016

[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. I thought similar librarians might be interested in the research essay from an instructor’s perspective.]. Where does the library portion come in? Reflecting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

WIMSE participants can also join the WIMSE Society, which offers the Research Experience Program and other service and research opportunities. Denison University—The Homestead Researchers looking for a hands-on approach to ecological sustainability find themselves at home on Denison’s Homestead.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Julia Seaman, research director at Bay View, also co-authored the report, which was produced with support from Cengage. “We cover the northern half of New Hampshire … Even though they may be online students, they still might take an online class from the comfort of our library.” Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

They are places where the library occupies the central location on the campus. Perhaps you’ll attend labs and discuss important books and research. You may have researched different majors that may interest you, but with which you are still unfamiliar. Colleges are places where you will study.

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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 31, 2025

Or conduct some research for your personal projectfinding the best pizza and pasta in Rome! Local and regional news organizations report on stories from around England, the UK, and beyond, making it a great place to develop skills in audience engagement, interviewing sources, and writing news articles for various demographics.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the same time, many college teaching and learning centers have developed new resource pages with guidance and links to articles such as Inside Higher Ed ’s “ ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now.” ” The academic research community has responded with new policies of its own. 31 but issued an update on Feb.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

Have students research the context of the original photo and write a one-page description of the photo and its significance in the women’s rights movement. THEN have students identify a modern-day female scientist that is currently conducting research related to or relevant to the historical scientists that they have already studied.

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Great College Advice

JULY 26, 2023

So, in this article, I’m going to cover the do’s and don’ts of writing a great response to the “Why our college?” So if you find yourself at a loss to come up with solid, rational reasons, perhaps have a look at this article about how to choose a college based on such criteria. is to do your research.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Umberto, CC0 In this article, Eugen Stoica, Scholarly Communications Officer, explains the relationship between Copyright – Creative Commons licences – Open Access, and why these are important for teaching and education. Suber, 2008 ).

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