Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it opens as a unified institution in July, VTDigger reported. The goal of the changes, Grewal said, is to provide "greater equity of access to our library services.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The first draft of this blog post was written before I published a post on 1/22 titled How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Probably some change in how library staff are counted. What is going on?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Fitzgerald , an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached out to me after reading my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” In her email, Sarah shared some fantastic insights on trends in academic library spending. How do academic libraries spend their budgets?

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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. million books protected by copyrights, including 33,000 of the publishers’ titles—was swift, landing days after the March 20 hearing. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Vermont State University plans to repurpose libraries on its five campuses and move to an “all-digital academic library” system when it opens as a unified institution in July, VTDigger reported. The goal of the changes, Grewal said, is to provide “greater equity of access to our library services.”

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Content What and Why: The book used to guide our teaching and learning workshops was the evidence-based Engaged Teaching: A Handbook for College Faculty (Barkley & Major, 2022). Engaged teaching: A handbook for college faculty. Using the lenses of critically reflective teaching in the community college classroom.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? As David spent the last 40 years working as an academic librarian and the last 20 years as a library dean, his critique carries some weight. These may not be the most prestigious or richest libraries.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

The University of Rhode Island removed a partial quote by Malcolm X from the outside of its library building. The inscription read, “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Today we don’t count books. Decades ago, when I first encountered accreditation, we had to report how many library books we had. That number seemed to matter, even though more than 90 percent of those books hadn’t circulated in years. Accreditors stopped counting books a long time ago.

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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. Maggie Melo is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 28, 2024

It may spare potential readers of Christopher Hamilton’s book Rapture (Columbia University Press) some confusion to take note of the subject headings for it in the Library of Congress catalog. Scott McLemee reviews Christopher Hamilton’s Rapture.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Howard Community College in Maryland opened its first family-friendly study space on campus earlier this month. How it happened: Howard president Daria Willis got the idea for the space when she toured the library last year upon beginning her tenure at the college.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

She completed a PhD in political science at the University of Texas Dallas, along with master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Arkansas, and library science from Texas Woman’s University. He has worked directly with over 50 colleges and universities and has trained well over 5,000 educators.

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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. An instructor checklist Izquierdo created offers tips and prompts on designing courses for inclusivity and accessibility, from general communications to syllabi to assessment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

The University of Rhode Island removed a partial quote by Malcolm X from the outside of its library building. The inscription read, “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

You hafta write like your professors talk—like, it’s gotta sound fancy and detached, like an academic book.” Highsmith’s “America,” Library of Congress/public domain via Raw Pixel Multiple Authors: Samantha Nousak Sarah D.C. ” “It’s not ‘proper’ English. ” “Huh?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile. There’s a great book waiting to be written on this one.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cabin Bob also boasts a Homestead library, with books related to Homesteaders’ lives and interests as well as a study space, adding another academic dimension to the living-learning community. Faculty and other guests will host weekly Homestead seminar sessions for discussions relevant to the Homestead.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On the bottom was the California Community College System. Any student anywhere in the state would be within easy commute of a college that could offer a two-year degree, an on-ramp to skilled work, and the ability to transfer credit to four-year institutions. Community colleges accept the top 100% of students who apply.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Koricich’s research interests focus primarily on rural issues in postsecondary education, with a particular emphasis on rural-serving postsecondary institutions and the communities they serve. But even recently, Vermont State merged three colleges into one to reduce costs. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and a B.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Editor (2009-15) and Associate Editor(1982-2009), American Library Association Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. I wrote two books on academic freedom. About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton, host of Changing Higher Ed ® , is a consultant to higher education institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

She spent 10 years working in the health services management field, overseeing the operation of large ambulatory medical practices in New York City and Connecticut, and later served as the program chair of the Allied Health Department at Naugatuck Valley Community College. We repurpose them. We don’t just let them sit there.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Nicholas -- better known as The Night Before Christmas -- an enchanted storybook tells viewers the story of JMU's finals week, from students chugging coffee in the library to a sleek wheeled robot delivering food. #2 3 -- San Jacinto College in Harris County, Texas. 7 -- Citrus College in Glendora, California. Wooster St.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

The original painting is in a collection at Edinburgh University Library in Scotland. The Edinburgh University Library, where the early 14th-century manuscript is preserved, considers the item a masterpiece of Persian book painting and its ‘greatest oriental treasure.’”

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sift through decades of data that the NCES has collected on college costs, student demographics, student debt, faculty demographics, faculty salaries, student graduation and dropout rates, and other subjects. DataLabs Tables Library contains more than 8,000 data tables published by the NCES. community colleges and their students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

I started to compile a list of electoral-adjacent books for this column, only to feel an urge to go outdoors and forget about what the next 20 months have in store. (At Here follows a digest of some books that seemed particularly interesting. At times there are definite therapeutic benefits to seeing squirrels.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is the author of two important books on the history of immigration and childhood, The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children , a history of U.S. None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

In K-12 education, with the Stop Woke Act, he’s created a sufficient atmosphere of intimidation to have teachers covering up their classroom libraries lest they risk a felony charge. So far, the courts have found some problems with DeSantis’s initiatives, but he doesn’t seem to care.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

They believe that college is worth the cost. Podcast Highlights To understand the importance of a student’s sense of belonging, higher ed leaders are encouraged to read Dr. Terrell Strayhorn’s book College Students’ Sense of Belonging. His book How to Get the Most Out of College was published in January 2022 by Alinea Learning.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

Grewal, however, faced student, faculty and community backlash for his plans to reformat their library systems into an “all-digital” model that would have eliminated several full-time positions and a huge selection of its books. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2025

Naval Academy has culled 400 books deemed to promote to diversity, equity and/or inclusion from its library at the insistence of the Trump administration, according to the Associated Press.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Diverse Champions Award Dr. Eboni M.

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