Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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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

JULY 29, 2024

CPE is a coordinating board that oversees Kentucky’s public universities, community colleges, and technical colleges. We recently set an attainment goal to increase the number of high school students that graduate with college credits—not just more, but more representative of our student body in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The increasingly aggressive stance toward the sector among both federal and state politicians, growth in faculty departures, ongoing staff burnout, and persistent dearth of enrollment among low-income, rural, and male-identified students are all troubling too. Has support declined as more women and people of color gained access to college?

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The percentage of nonmedical, “instructional staff” faculty members at public and nonprofit private colleges and universities who work full-time but aren’t on the tenure track has almost tripled since 1987, relatively steadily increasing from 5 percent to 13 percent. “The U.S. “The U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

Gray felt inspired to instead become a chaplain at Amarillo College and help faculty and staff of the two-year institution with their mental health struggles. Gray was more interested in the mental health of faculty and staff members. “The timing couldn’t have been more perfect,” Gray said. Jacqueline S.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

.” Most states allow high school students to enroll in community college or university courses. Students enroll twice: they earn both high school AND college credits for the same course. In some cases, community college faculty offer these courses in the high school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

A group of students from the Community College of Baltimore County set out to answer such questions and pull back the curtain on higher education for students through their podcast. Definitions of success: The podcast serves two key purposes. Image: What makes a good school, and who gets to decide that?

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight.

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s definitely the holiday season here at Kelchen on Education HQ (my home office in beautiful east Tennessee). I took cuts to salary and retirement benefits during the 2020-21 academic year at my last job, and that was a university that made major cuts to staff while protecting full-time faculty employment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

” This shift, Kowal said, comes at a precipitous moment for the state’s colleges and universities. But many leaders and faculty members at New York’s public higher ed institutions also say the increased support isn’t enough to pull them out of the financial pit created by years of state cuts and disinvestment.

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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. That is definitely not it."

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

At FGCU, where many full-time advisers have faculty status, Knibbs even teaches a class on the foundations of civic engagement. Looking at responses by institution type, 56 percent of four-year college students say they’ve gotten this kind of advice, compared to 49 percent of community college students.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. Our special guest today is Heather Speed, vice president for Student Success at Pueblo Community College. TZ: Great.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Faculty, staff and students provided input to develop definitions of each principle, with the initial focus as a student-facing initiative. Training materials at the ACS for faculty advisers feature the principles and emphasize support and resources for students. First, capacity-building for students must start with educators.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Image: The cancellation of two days of classes at D’Youville University almost a month ago turned out to be only the start of computer network problems that have led to frustrations across campus, faculty members say. Faculty members said they resumed teaching after the private university in Buffalo, N.Y.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget! Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. There are many different types of designations, unions, etc.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Tranquilino “Kino” Hurtado became Salt Lake Community College’s inaugural Hispanic-serving institution initiatives director in November 2022, poised for the challenge and opportunity of preparing the college for HSI designation. Are we just enrolling them? What does the service mean?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

" Postdocs said that they were most negatively affected by their salary (95 percent of respondents), lack of clarity of pathway to next position (90 percent), unclear definition of their time as a postdoc (87 percent), job security and position guarantees (87 percent) and decreased funding for their position (82 percent). Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. I’ve used that insight in overhauling faculty hiring processes, bringing in more people in the final round to cancel out any individual biases. The most basic is that college leaders don’t act in a vacuum. In the context of a bus, it makes a lot of sense.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

It is time for faculty members—and for all the administrators and campus leaders out there committed to the value of the intellectual mission of higher education—to embrace our existence in the “real world. We contribute to the weakening of the tenure system and the exploitation of contingent faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: A Valparaiso University plan to sell off artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe and others has led to strong opposition from some faculty members and students questioning the ethics of selling off prized and valuable parts of the university museum’s collection to pay for residence hall renovations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: Rows of shelves containing everything from card games to coloring sheets, fidget toys to aromatherapy cards, line the Bellin College Student Success Center, encouraging students, staff and faculty to take a moment and reconnect in the middle of a busy day. “It’s made the Student Success Center more accessible.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

According to the draft, foreign universities must be ranked among the world’s top 500 to set up shop in India, a more expansive definition than the top 100 threshold originally set out in the NEP. They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Rivera Restivo is working on her associate’s degree at Northwestern Connecticut Community College and feels advising resources neglect nontraditional students, like herself. During her academic career, Rivera Restivo says she’s found advisers have high levels of responsibility but are not always helpful.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

That sentence in his column links to a racist column—and not a type of racism that requires understanding current antiracism discourse or diversity, equity and inclusion or debates over recent definitions of racism. Furthermore, UHD’s faculty hiring and promotion practices are based solely on merit.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. But the general public doesn’t know.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. “The state had done a good job for a long time trying to put lots of resources out into the world for foster youth to go to college,” State Senator Angelique Ashby, a Democrat, said in a recent webinar about the proposed legislation.

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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

The three share tips on collecting and using data to convince faculty and senior leaders to become enthusiastic partners in the effort. DC: And I'll add on to that, even more so with the faculty component. Students may, you know, they're going to see their faculty more than they see their academic advisor. Learn more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They outlined their concerns about the& lack of transparency and communication with the program's students and adjunct faculty -- who were only told about the admissions pause after the email went out to students. This approach will also tap into the expertise of the talented faculty in our other programs."

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Definitely generates some interest, but I also think we could talk about the civic value in the role higher education plays in serving the community. CP: Yeah, I definitely think it's an option for institutions to explore. Definitely the material support, but also the emotional support. CP: Yeah no, I definitely agree.

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Study Aborad Association

JULY 16, 2024

That’s why this year we created our Community and Technical College Scholarships , available for anyone from a CC or TC studying with SAA on a Faculty-Led program looking for financial assistance. In my personal life, I have definitely been changed. [I Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Logan L.

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this episode, I interview Dr. Christine Harrington, Faculty, Community College Leadership Doctoral Program, Morgan State University. The focus of the episode is her book, Creating Culturally Affirming and Meaningful Assignments: A Practical Resource for Higher Education Faculty. Scroll down to access the transcript.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a current practicing artist and critic and a former art faculty member, art museum director and curator, I feel as if I’ve seen and heard it all when it comes to responses to art. For that matter, whose definition of beautiful are we talking about when we do? Blog: Just Explain It to Me! A chair isn’t art!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“We definitely have at least twice as many people as what admins believe,” said Matt Ford, a member of the negotiating team for Temple University Graduate Students’ Association, or TUGSA , which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. The teaching and research assistants’ walkout began Jan.

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