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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s faculty strike has ended, just before its second week was to start. The university and the union, UIC United Faculty, each announced the strike’s end and a tentative agreement early Monday morning. 20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.]

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

As Kimball and Iler show, the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation’s 3,285 four-year colleges and universities holds 54 percent of campus endowments. To put it bluntly: the wealthiest colleges and universities began to engage in a positional and spending arms race, with a goal of maximizing their reputation and prestige.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. ” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: Some members of the Renegade Institute for Liberty, a controversial group of professors at Bakersfield College, are enmeshed in an increasingly vitriolic dispute playing out on the California campus that has pitted students and faculty members against each other and prompted their supporters and critics to take sides.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Higher Ed Challenge 2: Rising Costs and Student Debt Challenge: The rising cost of higher education has left graduates with an average student loan debt of over $40,000, raising concerns about affordability and the return on investment. Tuition costs have risen dramatically over the past few decades, outpacing inflation and wage growth.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials.

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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 Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Illinois at Chicago’s faculty strike is over, just before its second week was to start. The university and the union, UIC United Faculty, each announced the strike’s end and a tentative agreement early Monday morning. 20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] And more…!”

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Part 6: The Future of Public Funding of Higher Ed The public funding of Higher Ed freefall began four decades ago (e.g., The aftermath has led to ugly financial battles involving policymakers, faculty, staff, students and alumni. Not surprisingly, this move has raised hackles and concerns among higher education leaders.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

institutions wouldn’t be able to partner with foreign universities or offer workforce development programs if they include placement at a foreign-owned organization. ” Other universities raised concerns about whether their current contracts for learning management systems would be allowed under the new guidance.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. This, he said, became controversial among the school’s senior faculty, eventually leading to his ouster by an interim provost. But I hope that you will try to understand what that is.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

At Augusta, Mackinnon held an “expanded provost’s position” over three and a half years in which he helped develop and implement the public research university’s strategic plan and oversaw its success and belonging programs, enrollment and other metrics, according to a press release.

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University Business

JULY 25, 2024

Lucchese says on the district’s website that he is eager to learn from students’ and faculty’s “experiences and expertise across such a wide range of creative disciplines, from music education, dance, and theater to management, production, performance, music therapy, and more.” Pharr, Pitt Community College (N.C.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

Others, like Merrimack College and BYU Idaho, have developed ready-to-launch proposals that they hope their respective accreditors will approve. Zemsky and Carrell did not provide a template for a three-year degree, tasking the participants involved with developing their own programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

25 July · Episode 165 Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF 37 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Funding research for tier two institutions enables building robust infrastructures, achieving groundbreaking discoveries and expanding STEM. Dr. Panch also discusses NSF’s mission and vision.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons.

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field. How do I do this to ensure that rigor?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

There are probably few faculty lounges around the world that haven’t witnessed exasperated discussions about what the availability of generative AI to the wider public entails. So many questions raised. Historically, we’ve tried to achieve this through the essay form. Why the Essay? ” So many assumptions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The survey itself initially received pushback from some faculty members who objected to its sponsor, UW Stout’s Menard Center for Public Policy and Service, which was named for Republican donor John Menard and funded through a Charles Koch Foundation donation, according to The Wisconsin Examiner. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. J-WEL is one of many funded centers at MIT. The group started its work with some funding from J-WEL and continued on a volunteer basis afterward because they all cared about the project. The context of the paper.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

Institutional leaders are dealing with pressing challenges such as declining enrollments, unreliable federal and state funding, an aging faculty, and public discontent about higher education. Interestingly, most of the community colleges and less-selective institutions in this analysis did have posted mission statements.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Therefore, RSIs are tied to their community’s focused industry and must remain targeted. Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and a B.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying underrepresented groups, understanding demographic shifts, and recognizing the evolving landscape of graduate education are all critical for developing effective SEM strategies. This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

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Parchment

MARCH 12, 2024

We were working with colleges 10 years ago who are building community college baccalaureate programs. So these are, you know, bachelor’s degrees program at community colleges. All of this stuff is going on in colleges. You might have a community college system that’s got a lot of authority.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since leaving the Department of Education, Michael has found that college is still worth the investment, providing graduates with more opportunities, on average, than non-college grads. To measure ROI for higher education graduates, Michael developed the Price-to-Earnings Premium (PEP) for Third Way. to gauge how they are doing.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College. Some faculty and staff saw warning signs from the start.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. But only 14 percent of graduates said they had experienced such a relationship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

That the main contributor to college’s rising college costs isn’t the cost of instruction, which has stagnated. Because whatever their professed claims, neither student learning nor equitable outcomes are pre-eminent institutional or faculty priorities. It’s not what institutions say that matters.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Image: University of Kentucky faculty members are working to train hundreds of K-12 teachers in the state to teach about the Holocaust. The initiative plans to use a second round of funding to train another cohort of teacher leaders this summer to teach another set of workshops. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The functions that colleges and universities are supposed to fulfill and the responsibilities they are expected to meet are constantly expanding, and only the wealthiest institutions can meet those expectations. Public and foundation funding should better align with student needs. Just say no.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

About Our Podcast Guest Brian Kelly supports the safeguarding of information assets across multiple verticals against unauthorized use, disclosure, modification, damage, or loss by developing, implementing, and maintaining methods to provide a secure and stable environment for clients’ data and related systems.

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