Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A more recent Supreme Court ruling relates to restrictions on affirmative action in higher education, which negatively impacts the opportunity for low-income Black and other minority students to make a successful high school to college transition. Ivery is the Chancellor of Wayne County Community College District. Dr. Curtis L.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Casamento’s recommendations weren’t a “mirror image” of what’s in the document, the member said. Walker, the AAUP’s grievance officer, alleged in a letter to the provost that the university had failed to follow the union contract’s procedures by circumventing the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Virginia women’s college made the change to comport with its founding documents, creating a stricter gender admissions policy than many of its peers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer For many students, transferring between community colleges and 4-year institutions is sometimes the only path to a bachelor’s degree. Community colleges provide a valuable service to students due to lower costs, closer proximity to home communities, and more flexibility for non-traditional students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As thoroughly documented by High Country News , forced land dispossessions serve as the foundation for institutions of higher education in the U.S. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

West Virginia University administrators have now abandoned their proposed changes to how faculty members are evaluated, promoted and terminated, following faculty members’ vote last month in opposition. The University Assembly, which includes all WVU faculty members, has approximately 2,700 members. Hide by line?:

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

These include building strong relationships, timely communication, staying organized, and effective time management. Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Consider if written documentation is needed for policy purposes or even simply as a point of reference for the student.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

The Faculty Senate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville said last week that it opposes acquisition of the University of Phoenix by a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system, The Arkansas Times reported. Ad keywords: administrators faculty forprofit Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ann Lichliter , Winona State University Mary Kirk , Winona State University Keywords: Equitable, Transparent, Assignments Key Statement: To benefit all students, faculty redesigned course assignments using the transparent assignment framework to increase student efficacy and improve learning outcomes. 2019; Lin et al.,

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Dr. Al Solano

JULY 28, 2024

Solano ) It’s critical that educators understand the difference between “equity impact” and “equity intentionality” and why community colleges and broad access institutions need both approaches. Shifting to equity intentionality. Again, should the target audience be called out or called in?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Kowal, president of the United University Professions union, which represents SUNY faculty members, defended Carpenter in a statement Saturday. ” “All University at Albany faculty are permitted to testify as expert witnesses consistent with applicable laws, regulations and policies,” he wrote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. To improve student experiences in the classroom, institutions should encourage faculty to utilize their syllabus not simply as a list of course requirements but as a key tool for student engagement and success.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Barnes eventually reset her goals and reached a new professional peak last August when she was named chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. years on average, according to the Community College League of California’s CEO tenure and retention dashboard.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The meeting came after months—and some say years—of complaints from students, faculty and staff members about overly chilly classrooms caused by aging or broken heating systems. Faculty members started posting signs on their classroom doors where they keep a log of class temperatures to urge administrators to address the problem.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

The Faculty Senate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville said today that it opposes acquisition of the University of Phoenix by a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system, The Arkansas Times reported. Ad keywords: administrators faculty forprofit Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Students who enroll in William Altman’s psychology classes at the State University of New York’s Broome Community College sometimes find themselves hooked up to an electroencephalograph—a device that measures electrical activity of the brain—while driving simulated cars either with or without texting.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

Some of it has been documented. No one has documented the full-length of the terrain. Community colleges and second-tier state universities--once considered the backbone of increasing democracy and social mobility, have faced declining revenues, lower enrollment, and public defunding for more than a decade.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

They help document learning. Over the course of the year, this series of posts will feature research, case studies, and the practical, replicative work of leaders in the academic services and enrollment management community. This is what AACRAO members do. They help create the bridges that connect one pathway to another.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

video camera, microphone, document camera). However, considering many colleges may have implemented HyFlex not because they believe in its instructional value, but instead to save money by overenrolling courses , the ideal technology investments are not always the reality. HyFlex may be useful in some limited circumstances.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we clearly have a world-class faculty that exists and teaches students and creates leaders of the future,” Boliek said. million in fiscal year 2026–27—over four times the $3 million annual cost that Chapel Hill provost Chris Clemens cited to faculty.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

Wang and provide back pay, Hearst Connecticut Media Group revealed, citing documents. “Documents obtained by Hearst Connecticut show that the NIH in 2018 first questioned whether Wang had disclosed financial affiliations with the Chinese institutions when applying for grant funding, a violation of NIH policy. Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It is sad, though hardly surprising, that at least some members of the UNC faculty are challenging rather than celebrating the prospect of the proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership. UNC Chapel Hill recognizes that the academic freedom of its faculty is essential to the university’s mission.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Instead, that team used faculty judgement based on student artifacts for outcome-level assessment. In the conversations, Wu and her team had a lengthy document of prompts for facilitating discussions. ” Seeking stories from campus leaders, faculty members and staff for our new Student Success focus. Share here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

As faculty members ponder academe’s new ChatGPT-infused reality, may are scrambling to redesign assignments. But he also created The Sentient Syllabus Project , an initiative driven by three principles: AI should not be able to pass a course, AI contributions must be attributed and true, and the use of AI should be open and documented.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

When it comes to the causes of our nation’s supposed failure to prepare students for the workplace, blame invariably settles on one group of professionals—the faculty. Consequently, faculty must be seen as essential allies—and not solely as recalcitrant obstacles—in pursuing career readiness across the curriculum.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

“Maybe that’s too high of a bar to say that you have an explicit, documented strategy somewhere.” Some faculty need minimal help with such efforts, while others require extensive assistance over time, he said. “Is the ‘well-developed strategy’ portion of the question really driving the response?”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2023

A: The academic library is, at its core, about making scholarship available to students and faculty and preserving it for future generations. ” Scholarly communication and therefore scholarship and the work of the library, will probably be weird for at least the next decade or two. Hardball will be played. Think a legal Sci-Hub.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

That the document’s authors were biased toward data science while downplaying other areas of math. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.” ” “The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

The subcommittee wants records from as far as back as January 2015 between faculty or staff at the universities and the federal government or social media organizations pertaining to the moderation of social media content, ProPublica reported. At this point, the letters are just requests, though the subcommittee does have subpoena power.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

universities (and their presidents, faculty and students) enslaved Black people, forced those people to build campuses on stolen Indigenous lands, received further grants of Indigenous lands to fund their endowments and accepted donations from slave traders and plantation owners to fund their operations.

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