Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

And while I am always trying to find ways to support community college students, I believe this work can be applied to all higher education institutions. Community college is free, and student aid covers the total cost of attendance. Every vendor on a community college campus would be required to accept SNAP.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

New College of Florida Is Dumping Books—and Losing Professors Ryan Quinn Tue, 08/20/2024 - 03:00 AM The conservative transformation of the institution continues, with gender studies texts being tossed and the faculty chair, plus other professors, taking leave. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Like mosquitoes, community colleges have the power to create a ripple of meaningful change. Community colleges, often under-appreciated yet mighty in their mission, are essential agents of transformationparticularly for students from historically marginalized communities. The numbers tell a powerful story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In legislatures and courtrooms across the country, attempts to ban books, impose educational gag orders, limit what can be taught and by whom, and defund and discredit diversity, equity, and inclusion work in colleges and universities pose a monumental threat to the nation’s future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Reddick, University of Texas at Austin Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Make your career journey what you want it to be and don’t wait for others to define it for you.” Burmicky currently has a book proposal on the subject and is working with a consulting firm on a presidential leadership competency study. Dr. Robert T.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ivery In my recent book, Detroit and the New Political Economy of Public Education (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), I use Detroit as a national template to explore the new dynamics of public education segregation and, therefore, of the racial, social, economic, political, and educational dynamics of the related urban and metropolitan region.

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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 18, 2025

Why Should Faculty Bother With AI? Greenberg Tue, 02/18/2025 - 03:00 AM The authors of a book on teaching with artificial intelligence answer our pressing questions about its uses, abuses and future in the classroom. Byline(s) Rachel Toor

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Landing a grant is essential for many faculty members—grants support their work and likely signal to their superiors that this is a faculty member to nurture. She responded to questions about the book via email. In my book, I use ikigai as a framework for generating grant ideas. Q: What is ikigai ?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. and Elizabeth W.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2024

Larry Johnson first encountered Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in 2015 as a dean at Broward College (Fla.) when he read the seminal book “Redesigning America’s Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.” Johnson is no longer a distant admirer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s Latino, African American, and sports history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 · Episode 254 Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education 36 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

To ensure that doesn’t happen, avoid these common pitfalls in the community college enrollment journey: Complex Enrollment Processes Lengthy admissions procedures: Complicated and time-consuming application processes can frustrate new students, especially those unfamiliar with higher education procedures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

But despite the progress, “none of this satisfied the critics,” Schexnider lamented in the 183-page book. “In In reading Schexnider’s book, one learns about the intricacies of higher education — the good, the bad, and the ugly,” wrote Dr. Marybeth Gasman in Forbes. Dr. Alvin J. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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MARCH 13, 2023

Earlier versions of the plan eliminated the books and all librarians from five campuses and drew widespread criticism. The new plan is to keep about 30,000 books, or about 10 percent of what the university currently has. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

A University of Southern California professor has recalled his new book after the Los Angeles Times found at least “95 instances of plagiarism,” the newspaper reported. Times reported that the book was scheduled to publish today. Ad keywords: books faculty Is this diversity newsletter? ” The L.A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you know that full-time faculty at 4-year universities are: 225 percent more likely to be of a non-Chrisitian faith than other US adults. More than half of full-time faculty have at least one parent with an advanced degree. What explains the faculty’s unrepresentativeness and the sluggishness of change?

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Some may favor, for example, reading a print book outside surrounded by the Northeast Kingdom’s live audio of spring peepers. But its botched announcement, in which “all-digital” is a misnomer, failed to recognize students’ and professors’ emotional attachment to print books.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A group of Stanford University faculty members has petitioned for a campus investigation of free speech and academic freedom in light of an anonymous reporting system that they say can stifle expression, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal reported that 77 Stanford faculty members signed the petition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

But despite the progress, “none of this satisfied the critics,” Schexnider lamented in the 183-page book. “In In reading Schexnider’s book, one learns about the intricacies of higher education — the good, the bad, and the ugly,” wrote Dr. Marybeth Gasman in Forbes. Dr. Alvin J. and doubled the school’s endowment, from $9.8

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APRIL 18, 2025

Mentoring in an Era of Uncertainty for Higher Education kathryn.palmer Fri, 04/18/2025 - 03:00 AM While most students want good mentors, faculty often dont know how to deliver on those expectations. A new book from a faculty coach at Duke University offers some guidance. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 28, 2024

Part one of a two-part virtual discussion about the new book Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (2024).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Students and faculty find a way to produce creatively, even if it’s not formal,” said Akbar. There are also the technical and aesthetic sides of art. The creative impulse and the tradition are born out of a need.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, I used ChatGPT to help me write a letter of recommendation and to assist me with crafting my lesson plan on banned books in libraries. Over recent weeks, I’ve found myself pulling up the chat bot when lesson planning and writing. Here’s the thing: I know how to do these things.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We should help students in our literature classes to transcend the too-common notion that “the film was funny but the book was not,” writes Douglas King.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Bryan Alexander’s new book, Universities on Fire, is a structured series of speculations about what that might mean. Is your college coastal? Community colleges in coastal counties are meant to serve those counties.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 8, 2023

Mirroring the complaint of every professor since the University of Bologna was established in 1088, Cowen observes that faculty must deal with “ too much bureaucracy and not enough time for the academic work itself.” Nor does he write about the inadequate investment in community colleges at every level of government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Or we could talk about the mismatch between the supply and demand for tenure-track faculty roles and the growing proportion of all teaching done by contingent and adjunct faculty. How many of your faculty members were born into this cohort? We might mention public disinvestment, student debt and stubbornly low graduation rates.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Faculty should assume that the students who do have formal accommodations have jumped through so many hoops to get them, and these accommodations are not giving them a leg up. That's something that I think a lot of faculty don't quite understand because they've never been through this process. It's giving them a fair shot.

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