Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The states Board of Education is expected to ban campus offices, centers and policies dedicated to DEI ideologies. Some students and faculty are outraged. The Idaho State Board of Education is slated to vote today on a resolution cutting back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at public four-year colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

CUNY’s central offices will use $150,000 on professional development, faculty engagement, and monthly discussions on issues related to discrimination. And the CUNY School of Law will have an adviser for faculty and staff on fostering a common understanding of discrimination and how to confront it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mantella, president of Grand Valley State, issued and completed a 15-point plan for racial equity as a clear statement on providing foundational knowledge around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and emphasizing commitment to the university’s values. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A federal district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Daymon Johnson, a Bakersfield College history professor, against his college and community college district in which he alleged systemwide rules to ensure employees uphold diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility values chilled his free speech.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance Ryan Quinn Thu, 02/06/2025 - 03:00 AM While one professor says faculty are pre-emptively censoring themselves in response, others are defiantwhile another is asking himself, What would I be willing to lose my job for? Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 24, 2024

Greenfield Community College leaders prematurely ended a partnership with a DEI consulting firm that issued a highly critical report. Employees are outraged.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Christopher Roth’s primary job at Guttman Community College, part of the City University of New York, is associate director of academic technology. About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Baston, president of Cuyahoga Community College pointed to the “opportunity deserts” that exist within higher education that stretch beyond race and ethnicity. Aronis said that her research reveals that many Jewish students feel unsafe on their campus and also feel that they have been abandoned by DEI offices throughout the nation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 5, 2024

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which houses 40 academic departments and more than 30 centers, is dropping diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements in its hiring processes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Alexander observes that many high school and community college students see no connection to the university, therefore building pathways to higher education is part of AAP’s outreach.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Jeannie Golden, East Carolina University; Dr. Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. Learn how to say no as a junior faculty member but say it with poise and some grace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Her previous roles included serving as president and CEO of the College Success Foundation in Seattle and Project GRAD Atlanta. She was a former faculty member and attendee of a historically Black college and university (HBCU) and served as a dean at Trinity Washington University, a predominantly Black and Hispanic-serving institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC has agreements with all 16 community colleges in Maryland, says Dr. Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 31, 2024

The move will decentralize the office’s resources, eliminate the IDE vice chancellor position and disperse existing staff members to other departments across the university—primarily the office of student affairs, for student success roles, and the provost’s office for faculty support roles. The changes go into effect on Aug.

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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 did an external evaluation for a couple of our cohorts to find that the greatest retention and success is actually with our students entering into community college,” Ellis says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2024

A federal judge for the Northern District of California threw out a lawsuit against the University of California, Santa Cruz, for requiring faculty job applicants to submit statements detailing how they would contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus.

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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 23, 2023

“Anti-racism statements are a covert way to justify lowering dissenting professors’ annual scores in the existing categories of teaching, scholarship and service, which could ultimately assist in purging the faculty of political dissidents. Furthermore, UHD’s faculty hiring and promotion practices are based solely on merit.”

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

21 Dartmouth College 8,065,743 8,484,189 -4.93 Colleges appearing at the bottom of the full endowment list are Oakton Community College ($6.2 million), Lakeland Community College ($5.7 This is the second year the NACUBO survey has asked about donations for DEI efforts.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Some faculty members were incensed. ” Bruce Strouble, an adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College and Florida A&M University for over a decade, said he was “outraged” by the statement. But these kinds of restrictions, no matter how vague, make faculty members afraid to teach certain subjects.

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Ridgewater College

JANUARY 19, 2022

Schwandt is now taking those priorities to a new level as the newly appointed director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Schwandt knows Ridgewater and its communities well, having served as an academic advisor and part-time diversity officer and Multicultural Club advisor for years, as well as recent interim DEI director.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. ” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” It will change higher education forever. percent in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well. However, diversity statements have come under fire in recent years. What are those of us within higher education to do?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

For example, discussions around loan forgiveness, free community college, or changes to Title IX can directly impact institutional operations. Faculty and staff require training to effectively use AI tools, and institutions need to invest in robust technological infrastructure, which can strain budgets.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He said objecting to DEI as a business principle struck him as an ideological attack, adding that demographics are shifting across the U.S.—especially —especially in California—which puts Whittier ahead of the curve in focusing on DEI. Santana added that the college has not raised tuition in three years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

These are social workers in our school of social work who are part of the individual college’s leadership team, who serve as a subclinical counseling coach resource to both students and faculty. If you look at our DEI plan on campus, it’s really granular in those ways. Who are we not serving well? Share here.

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Via's

JUNE 2, 2023

Located in Palatine, Illinois, Harper College is one of the nation’s largest community colleges, serving approximately 30,000 credit and non-credit students annually in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. While Nellie’s focus is primarily on programming and working with faculty, Angelica is “on the ground” with Harper students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

” ‘Listen to Students’ Dynamic teaching can work for neurodivergent students, with some clarifications, says Liz Norell, an associate professor of political science at Chattanooga State Community College and faculty developer who identifies as neurodivergent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

” The Everglades fundraiser, part of the college’s “Defy Boundaries” capital campaign, has since been canceled due to student and faculty backlash, according to The College Voice , Connecticut College’s student newspaper.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The DEI lineage stands out from the others in that it didn’t introduce new success metrics into the conversation. These efforts became part of the larger antiracism moment that emerged in 2020 from the widespread response to the death of George Floyd and rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Here’s what we learned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In college, I took a comparative politics class on settler colonialism. In hostile political climates, anything labeled “DEI” can become a lightning rod; some states are being quite blunt about it. But I never advertised it as such.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

Most students who have not enrolled in college are first-generation, Pell-eligible, and undocumented students, particularly those who feel disconnected and whose grades are between B- and C-. The program begins with a multi-day summer orientation to instill a sense of community in its incoming first-year students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A: Another Tuck faculty member I used to work with, Professor Vijay “VG” Govindarjan , used to joke that he was going to take the “motherhood and apple pie” mission statements of the Fortune 100 and rearrange them under the cover of nightfall and see if anyone noticed the next morning.

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