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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether. Dr. Mordecai Brownlee is President of the Community College of Aurora.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

The Scholarly Teacher

The questions (and answers) of the quiz can also become the source of discussion and clicker-based learning at the beginning of the following lecture, integrating once again within the framework of TPS, providing students with a constructive way to make knowledge their own and instructors with another effective teaching tool to achieve that goal.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

EHS Senior Vice President of Student Life Christy Caiti Chatfield has set up programming and amenities that build community. Similar to college dorms, the facilities have resident advisors, although some schools that place a large number of students with EHS may send resident advisors specifically selected by the college.

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Minority males benefit from consistent academic coaching

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Our goal is to find practices, and hopefully this is one, where I think at the end we can say this is an effective way to catch students before problems arise, assist students to overcome those challenges and then, ultimately, as a result of doing so, more students are successful,” says John J. Community Colleges.

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Career Q&A: UT Knoxville's vice provost for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: Many universities have positions that work closely with student success; sometimes, those positions are vice provosts of academic affairs or are aligned with student life or with enrollment management. Nominate yourself or a colleague to be featured in a future Student Success Career Q&A article.

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Iowa prepares students to learn

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To measure the program’s impact, Vecera and Learning at Iowa measure the number of campus presentations delivered to community members and will analyze qualitative student and adviser feedback on materials and the program’s usefulness. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Dining halls can contribute to eating disorders—and recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Editorial Tags: Student life Student Health Image Source: Student Affairs Marketing/Northwestern University Image Caption: Northwestern’s dining halls no longer display calorie counts by the food they serve, though the information is still publicly available. : Is this Career Advice newsletter?: